{"id":8399,"date":"2011-01-21T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T18:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8399"},"modified":"2011-01-21T13:39:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T18:39:49","slug":"huckabee-in-pole-position-for-gop-2012-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8399\/huckabee-in-pole-position-for-gop-2012-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee in Pole Position for GOP 2012 Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, former Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR) comfortably <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2011\/01\/21\/huckabee_leads_nationally.html \" target=\"_blank\">leads all other likely Republican contenders<\/a> for the party\u2019s 2012 presidential nomination.\u00a0 Though the lead is of dubious predictive value, the Other Man From Hope, Arkansas continues to be a genuine political force attractive to millions of Americans.\u00a0 He did, after all, win the 2008 Iowa caucuses and come within a hair\u2019s breath of winning Missouri\u2019s primary.\u00a0 Had he won the latter, the nomination fight would have boiled down to him and Senator John McCain (R-AZ), with favorable odds for an eventual Huckabee win.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Huckabee says he <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2011\/01\/21\/huckabee_will_wait_until_summer.html?ref=related-entry \" target=\"_blank\">won\u2019t make a final decision on running until this summer<\/a>.\u00a0 The reason being his distaste for an 18-month campaign; a distaste shared by many voters.\u00a0 Though Huckabee ran afoul of some fiscal conservative groups for some infrastructure spending increases he implemented as governor, he rightly pointed out that all of them were either mandated by federal judicial rulings, or popularly approved by Arkansas voters.<\/p>\n<p>From all accounts Huckabee is probably the most normal person likely to run for president this cycle.\u00a0 That alone may explain his widespread appeal.\u00a0 Time will tell if it is enough to get him the nomination this time.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Political Wire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, former Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR) comfortably leads all other likely Republican contenders for the party\u2019s 2012 presidential nomination.\u00a0 Though the lead is of dubious predictive value, the Other Man From Hope, Arkansas continues to be a genuine political force attractive to millions of Americans.\u00a0 He did, after all, win the 2008 Iowa caucuses and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,738,1097,2311,721,201,61,71],"class_list":["post-8399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-arkansas","tag-fiscal-conservative","tag-infrastructure","tag-john-mccain","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-spending","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8403,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions\/8403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}