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Poll: Huckabee GOP front-runner in 2012
Huckabee, a 2008 presidential hopeful who's now the host of a weekend Fox News talk show, dismissed the poll as meaningless.
"It's like speculating who's going to be the best actor next year when we don't even know what the movies are," he told the newspaper.
The poll of 1,021 adults, including 301 Republicans, taken Saturday and Sunday, found that after Huckabee the top three Republican contenders for the presidential nomination are former Massachusetts governor and 2008 presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, former Alaskan governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and political consultant and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Seventy-one percent of declared Republicans would "seriously consider" voting for Huckabee, 65 percent would consider voting for Romney or Palin and 60 percent would consider voting for Gingrich, the poll indicated.
In poll responses on whether the prospects are "qualified to be president," only Huckabee reached the 50 percent mark.
USA Today observed that all four top candidates either are releasing or have just released books. The newspaper speculated the candidates could be taking cues from Barack Obama, whose "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams of My Father" helped lend him visibility and credibility as a U.S. senator before he successfully ran for U.S. president.
The USA Today/Gallup Poll has an overall margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points and a margin of error among Republicans of 7 points.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 11/05/2009
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11-09-2009 01:18
woscar wrote:
Mike Huckabee
Although I certainly don't agree with Mike Huckabee on everything, I do listen to his radio show when I run across it. I'd actually planned to vote for him in the primary last time around, but he was out of the running by the time we got to vote. He has some good ideas, some not so good, but at least he's open to other ideas and willing to listen to others. He's also not afraid of humor at his expense, and pretty good at delivering it without being hateful.
I'm sure Mitt Romney is proud to be on par with Sarah Palin! :)
I'm sure Mitt Romney is proud to be on par with Sarah Palin! :)
11-07-2009 11:05
Voter,67 wrote:
GYP,oops I meant GOP!
Same old c***...We're still stuck in ALL of the past. GWB and his cronies did more damage than you can imagine in his 8 years of "leadership"..hope you get what you deserve: a court martial & swine flu...
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