Taking Names

Mike Huckabee was Governor of Arkansas for over 10 years. He is undoubtedly John McCain's best VP pick! Survey USA took a series of polls to determine the VP candidate (out of Governor Huckabee, Senator Lieberman, Governor Pawlenty, and Governor Romney) who would help John McCain the most. They took polls in Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Virginia, California, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon, New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Alabama, Kentucky, and Missouri. In almost every case, Governor Mike Huckabee did best. He even had a slight lead in Massachusetts where Romney was once Governor! There have been five bellwether states - Ohio, Missouri, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Arkansas - that have correctly predicted the winner of the General Election for each of the past eight elections (dating back to 1976). Of those, in the GOP Primaries, Huckabee won the popular vote in two of them (Arkansas and Louisiana), coming in second to McCain in the other three. McCain won the popular vote in three of them (Ohio, Missouri and Kentucky), coming in second to Huckabee in the other two. The margin between the two in the state of Missouri was extremely narrow. And in the state of Kentucky, Huckabee even managed to come in second to John McCain three and a half months after he suspended his campaign and endorsed McCain. Governor Huckabee would be a great Vice President. Even Mitt Romney thinks so! At a town hall meeting back in December (before Iowa) he was asked what he thought of Huckabee as VP. Romney replied: "Sure, he’s a wonderful person... He’d make a great vice president."

I like Mike!

Governor Huckabee will win hands down. True, every once in a long while his jokes go awry (e.g. NRA joke). But over all, he is the most humorous politician you'll find. Way to go Huckabee!