So What About Huckabee?
The big news everyone is talking about is Mike Huckabee’s surge in the polls in Iowa. There’s all sorts of black slapping and proclamations about this or that candidate being dead in the water, but let’s be honest with ourselves. This is one state, and the only reason this one state has so much influence is because there’s all these straw polls of a couple of thousand people that give the media something to talk about.
Which isn’t how it should be, but that’s how it is I guess. Personally, I don’t think the primaries in a couple of states should have this much influence over who the candidate is.
But keep in mind that these predictions of doom for the other campaigns are greatly exaggerated, and are mostly being pushed by the people who support those doing well in the polls now. Remember that if the person who was the “front runner” at this point in the Presidential campaigns last year won every time, Howard Dean would have been the Democrat candidate in 2004 and not John Kerry.
So the Huckabee partisans will be crowing, I’m sure, but this race is far from over.
