JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee announced the endorsement of 31 Missouri legislators during a news conference Tuesday in Jefferson City, Mo. Huckabee spoke to a standing-room-only crowd of about 250 people in a conference room of the Associated Industries of Missouri building.
Since he is from neighboring Arkansas, Huckabee said he has certain kinship with Missouri.
"I want to turn the nonsense of our tax system to the common sense of what's often called the FairTax," Huckabee said. He also discussed being pro-life was well as his stance on homeland security, terrorism and the economy.
State Senator Delbert Scott and State Rep. Scott Lipke, two co-chairs of Huckabee’s Missouri campaign, introduced Huckabee and then presented the other state legislators supporting him.
"He is a solid conservative who isn't afraid to tell it like it is," Lipke said . "As governor, Huckabee cut taxes where he could and made good use of the revenues he had improving roads and education in Arkansas. That is the kind of common sense leadership the country needs right now."
Besides Scott and Lipken, the other co-chairs of the Huckabee campaign are Rep. Brian Yates and Rep. Mike Sutherland.
Other Missouri legislators endorsing Huckabee include:
Missouri Faith and Family Chair, Senator John Loudon
Representative Jim Avery
Representative Brian Baker
Senator Matt Bartle
Representative Mark Bruns
Representative Wayne Cooper
Representative Cynthia Davis
Representative Ed Emery
Representative Barney Fisher
Representative Ward Franz
Representative Steve Hunter
Representative Will Kraus
Senator Brad Lager
Representative Bob May
Senator Rob Mayer
Representative Brian Munzlinger
Representative Bob Nance
Representative Brian Nieves
Representative Darrell Pollock
Senator Chuck Purgason
Representative Don Ruzicka
Representative David Sater
Representative Rodney Schad
Representative Charlie Schlottach
Representative Tom Self
Representative Jason Smith
Representative Don Wells
Representative Dennis Wood
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Duncan Hunter
WASHINGTON (CNN) — California Rep. Duncan Hunter, a former presidential candidate, announced Wednesday he is endorsing Mike Huckabee's White House bid.
“I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail,” Hunter said in a statement. “Of the remaining candidates I feel that he is strongly committed to strengthening national defense, constructing the border fence and meeting the challenge of China’s emergence as a military superpower that is taking large portions of America’s industrial base.
"Along with these issues of national security, border enforcement and protecting the U.S. industrial base, I see another quality of Mike Huckabee’s candidacy that compels my endorsement," he added. "Mike Huckabee is a man of outstanding character and integrity. I saw that character over the last year of campaigning and was greatly impressed. The other Republican candidates have many strengths and I wish them all well."
“I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail,” Hunter said in a statement. “Of the remaining candidates I feel that he is strongly committed to strengthening national defense, constructing the border fence and meeting the challenge of China’s emergence as a military superpower that is taking large portions of America’s industrial base.
"Along with these issues of national security, border enforcement and protecting the U.S. industrial base, I see another quality of Mike Huckabee’s candidacy that compels my endorsement," he added. "Mike Huckabee is a man of outstanding character and integrity. I saw that character over the last year of campaigning and was greatly impressed. The other Republican candidates have many strengths and I wish them all well."
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
Video of Mike on Hannity and Clomes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVwHzG8L23k
watch the video of Mike on HaC
watch the video of Mike on HaC
Thursday, January 17, 2008
SC Lt. Gov. Endorses Mike Huckabee
Columbia, SC -- South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer endorsed Mike Huckabee for President, it was announced today. Bauer will join Huckabee as well as Former Governor David Beasley, State Chairman Mike Campbell , Chuck Norris, and Ric Flair on the campaign trail on Thursday.
Bauer stated, "I, like many voters, have been previously undecided, but this election is too important to sit on the sidelines. This week, I have decided to vote for Mike Huckabee, and I urge all South Carolinians to join me in voting for Mike Huckabee this Saturday. Simply put, I believe Mike Huckabee is the best of several fine candidates to lead America . As America faces tough times, Mike Huckabee has the character, integrity, and proven leadership to ensure our greatest days are yet to come."
"Also, I've tried to carefully compare each candidate's position as it relates to issues affecting senior citizens, and I've concluded that Mike Huckabee is a sound choice for senior citizens," Bauer said. As Lt. Governor, Bauer heads the state's office on aging.
Bauer also said he admires Huckabee's ability to win against the odds, noting that he, too, has a history of winning races considered to be upsets.
"Nobody knows better than I do that it's the people, not the polls, which determines the winner on election day," Bauer said. "I believe the fact that Mike Huckabee has stayed positive while others have waged negative campaigns against him, will sway undecided voters toward him. I believe it speaks to his character."
Huckabee stated, "I welcome Andre's support and am glad to have him on board Team Huckabee. I'm really pleased to have the support of a leader with such a solid record of achievement and a reputation for hard work and being a servant of the people, who shares my commitment to conservative governance."
Bauer, who is serving his second term as South Carolina's Lieutenant Governor, has joined Mike Huckabee's leadership team in South Carolina, which already includes Former Governor David Beasley, United States Congressman Bob Inglis, State Chairman Mike Campbell and the family of Former Governor Carroll A. Campbell Jr., and numerous state legislators including Greenville State Senator David Thomas, Rex Rice, and Liston Barfield of Conway.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
Michigan primary
Gov. Huckabee is expected to do well in the upcoming primary in Michigan. I would predict that he comes away with a stong second place finish if not better. Gov. Huckabee does not have to win Michigan to get the nomination but a stong finish here and a win in South Carolina will be what he needs to do for him to surge in the polls. Lets finish strong in Michigan and South Carolina and head to the White House.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
New Fundrasing goal!
Our new goal is $10,000,000 raised by Feb. 5.
It is a big goal.
The money we raise will go directly towards our campaign plan in Florida and the Super Tuesday states.
We can reach this goal.
It is a big goal.
The money we raise will go directly towards our campaign plan in Florida and the Super Tuesday states.
We can reach this goal.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Mikes speech
This is Mike Huckabe's speech from last night after finishing 3rd place in the NH primary.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Huckabee to Finish 3rd
Mike Huckabee is projected to Finish 3rd in the NH primary ahead of Giuliani, Paul, and Thompson. Huckabee rose greatly in the polls over the past few days and was happy to finish 3rd where he expected to finish 4th or 5th. With the momentum with Huckabee he will now go on to Michigan and South Carolina. Huckabee is in first in South Carolina and is first in some Michigan polls. Congrats to Mike for a solid 3rd place finish in NH!
Monday, January 7, 2008
Eating Up Huckabee
Very interesting article I read!
By MICHAEL SCHERER/CONCORD
This is what it looks like when the seams burst on a threadbare campaign: Over a hundred people, crushed together between the Mike Huckabee bus and the front door of the Barley House restaurant Monday afternoon on Main Street in Concord, N.H.
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The fans of rival candidate Ron Paul shout "Tax Hike Mike" over the Huck boosters, who scream "We Like Mike," and the press is jammed by the dozens in the middle, unable to get through the front door to witness the day's crucial newsmaking moment, when the Huck-a-campaign pulls off its latest Huck-a-coup - the launch of the Huck-a-burger. Yes, this is really happening.
We bang on the restaurant's front window. "What do you need?" a Huckabee aide writes out on a piece of paper, unable to hear us. TO GET IN! He understands, but can't help. "Fire marshal says no capacity," he writes back on his notepad. So we are left to stand in the street, amid the unending din. Even MSNBC's Chris Matthews, with his shimmering corn-husk blond hair, cannot gain entrance. Huckabee's own son, David, is not even going to try.
Just a few weeks ago, none of this would ever have happened. Back then Huckabee was still known as the pastor with the funny tax plan, whom no one really understood and only a handful of reporters followed. Sure, he was polling well in Iowa, went the buzz, but that's where all the evangelicals live. He had no real campaign operation to back him up. He was considered a flash in the pan. He was a curiosity. He wasn't going anywhere. Remember Pat Robertson in 1988? It was just a matter of time.
But then Huckabee won in Iowa, not barely, but by 9 points. He crushed Mitt Romney, despite the Mitt machine, a massive campaign organization that ruled the August straw poll and dropped nasty mailers like confetti. Now he is polling third behind Romney and McCain in New Hampshire, the two home-state favorites, at about 11%, a southern Baptist minister who has pulled ahead of a former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani, in New England. Huckabee has skillfully set expectations low enough that a third-place finish in New Hampshire will be viewed as a success, and he is also leading in polls in South Carolina, where the GOP will hold a key primary on January 19. So the press has got to figure Huckabee out, and fast, which is bad timing, because New Hampshire voters are trying to do the same thing. On more than one occasion, the crowds have grown unwieldy, halls packed with enthusiastic audiences, all in a state where most folk don't much trust anyone who wears religion on their sleeve.
On Sunday in Windham, Huckabee filled a school cafeteria so tight that it was tough to get at the free clam chowder. He delivered a new stump speech, retailored for the less religious and more libertarian New Hampshire voter. It was full of big statements about the wonders of America, the need for low taxes and his identification with the little guy. Back in Iowa, Huckabee would often compare slavery and abortion - both resulted, he argued, from ignoring the principle that every human life is created equal. Now in New Hampshire, he begins the same riff, about the horrors of racism and slavery, but the moral has less to do with social values than economic ones. "We need to now value every human being irregardless of their net worth," he says. When the event was over, voters lined up to wait 30 minutes to shake his hand. Chip Saltsman, who manages the Huckabee campaign, still works as a body man at events, handing the candidate bumper stickers to sign.
At the same time, despite his much-mocked pledge to run a positive campaign, Huckabee has continued to play hardball with Romney. He tells reporters to ask the other candidates if they know how to clean a gun. "People are looking for a presidential candidate who reminds them more of the guy they work with rather than the guy that laid them off," he says to crowds, small and large. During a debate Saturday, Romney accused him of mischaracterizing his position on the war in Iraq. "Which one?" Huckabee shot back, earning laughter from the audience and a scornful glance from the former Massachusetts governor.
The rest is still mostly improvisation in a campaign that has been thriving on the charisma of its candidate, who lacks much of a policy framework or fundraising operation. In the course of four days, he has played his bass with both high school and professional bands. He has posed with soccer balls for the children of Iraq, and invited photographers to watch him run 14 miles Sunday afternoon before a debate - nine minutes a mile, says a press aide. Everywhere he goes, his celebrity endorser Chuck Norris follows.
But the campaign coup-de-grace came on Monday, when the schedule said Huck and Chuck would "attend the launch of the Huckaburger." So ensued the mob outside the Barley house, the chanting Paul supporters, the frustrated journalists. Few were able to see the actual burger, which consisted of bison meat on a whole wheat bun with spinach and a fried pickle, according to a senior aide. But then that may be okay for the still soaring Huckabee campaign. The fact that more than a hundred people strained outside the restaurant window for a glimpse of a piece of meat was validation enough.
By MICHAEL SCHERER/CONCORD
This is what it looks like when the seams burst on a threadbare campaign: Over a hundred people, crushed together between the Mike Huckabee bus and the front door of the Barley House restaurant Monday afternoon on Main Street in Concord, N.H.
ADVERTISEMENT
The fans of rival candidate Ron Paul shout "Tax Hike Mike" over the Huck boosters, who scream "We Like Mike," and the press is jammed by the dozens in the middle, unable to get through the front door to witness the day's crucial newsmaking moment, when the Huck-a-campaign pulls off its latest Huck-a-coup - the launch of the Huck-a-burger. Yes, this is really happening.
We bang on the restaurant's front window. "What do you need?" a Huckabee aide writes out on a piece of paper, unable to hear us. TO GET IN! He understands, but can't help. "Fire marshal says no capacity," he writes back on his notepad. So we are left to stand in the street, amid the unending din. Even MSNBC's Chris Matthews, with his shimmering corn-husk blond hair, cannot gain entrance. Huckabee's own son, David, is not even going to try.
Just a few weeks ago, none of this would ever have happened. Back then Huckabee was still known as the pastor with the funny tax plan, whom no one really understood and only a handful of reporters followed. Sure, he was polling well in Iowa, went the buzz, but that's where all the evangelicals live. He had no real campaign operation to back him up. He was considered a flash in the pan. He was a curiosity. He wasn't going anywhere. Remember Pat Robertson in 1988? It was just a matter of time.
But then Huckabee won in Iowa, not barely, but by 9 points. He crushed Mitt Romney, despite the Mitt machine, a massive campaign organization that ruled the August straw poll and dropped nasty mailers like confetti. Now he is polling third behind Romney and McCain in New Hampshire, the two home-state favorites, at about 11%, a southern Baptist minister who has pulled ahead of a former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani, in New England. Huckabee has skillfully set expectations low enough that a third-place finish in New Hampshire will be viewed as a success, and he is also leading in polls in South Carolina, where the GOP will hold a key primary on January 19. So the press has got to figure Huckabee out, and fast, which is bad timing, because New Hampshire voters are trying to do the same thing. On more than one occasion, the crowds have grown unwieldy, halls packed with enthusiastic audiences, all in a state where most folk don't much trust anyone who wears religion on their sleeve.
On Sunday in Windham, Huckabee filled a school cafeteria so tight that it was tough to get at the free clam chowder. He delivered a new stump speech, retailored for the less religious and more libertarian New Hampshire voter. It was full of big statements about the wonders of America, the need for low taxes and his identification with the little guy. Back in Iowa, Huckabee would often compare slavery and abortion - both resulted, he argued, from ignoring the principle that every human life is created equal. Now in New Hampshire, he begins the same riff, about the horrors of racism and slavery, but the moral has less to do with social values than economic ones. "We need to now value every human being irregardless of their net worth," he says. When the event was over, voters lined up to wait 30 minutes to shake his hand. Chip Saltsman, who manages the Huckabee campaign, still works as a body man at events, handing the candidate bumper stickers to sign.
At the same time, despite his much-mocked pledge to run a positive campaign, Huckabee has continued to play hardball with Romney. He tells reporters to ask the other candidates if they know how to clean a gun. "People are looking for a presidential candidate who reminds them more of the guy they work with rather than the guy that laid them off," he says to crowds, small and large. During a debate Saturday, Romney accused him of mischaracterizing his position on the war in Iraq. "Which one?" Huckabee shot back, earning laughter from the audience and a scornful glance from the former Massachusetts governor.
The rest is still mostly improvisation in a campaign that has been thriving on the charisma of its candidate, who lacks much of a policy framework or fundraising operation. In the course of four days, he has played his bass with both high school and professional bands. He has posed with soccer balls for the children of Iraq, and invited photographers to watch him run 14 miles Sunday afternoon before a debate - nine minutes a mile, says a press aide. Everywhere he goes, his celebrity endorser Chuck Norris follows.
But the campaign coup-de-grace came on Monday, when the schedule said Huck and Chuck would "attend the launch of the Huckaburger." So ensued the mob outside the Barley house, the chanting Paul supporters, the frustrated journalists. Few were able to see the actual burger, which consisted of bison meat on a whole wheat bun with spinach and a fried pickle, according to a senior aide. But then that may be okay for the still soaring Huckabee campaign. The fact that more than a hundred people strained outside the restaurant window for a glimpse of a piece of meat was validation enough.
Huckabee up in SC
* Mike Huckabee 36% (28%)
* Mitt Romney 19% (18%)
* John McCain 17% (16%)
* Fred Thompson 11% (15%)
* Rudy Giuliani 9% (12%)
* Ron Paul 5% (-)
* Mitt Romney 19% (18%)
* John McCain 17% (16%)
* Fred Thompson 11% (15%)
* Rudy Giuliani 9% (12%)
* Ron Paul 5% (-)
Huckabee ok with 3rd or 4th
Mike Huckabee does not expect to win NH and has even been quoted as saying he is ok with a 3rd or 4th place finish in NH. Mike is currently in 3rd place in NH and as of today has taken the lead in the national polls. Mike Huckabee is currently looking foward to SC where he is first there in recent polls. Lets finish strong in NH and go on to SC.
Huckabee First Nation Wide!
On the Republican side, Gallup says Iowa caucuses winner Mike Huckabee has jumped into a national lead for the first time. The rundown: Huckabee, 25%; Rudy Giuliani, 20%; Sen. John McCain, 19%; Fred Thompson, 12%; Mitt Romney, 9%; and Rep. Ron Paul, 4%.
Huckabee's support rose 9 percentage points from mid-December. McCain's rose 5 points. Giuliani's fell 7 points. Thompson's fell 2 points. Romney's fell 5 points.
The surveys of 423 "Republicans or Republican leaners" and 499 "Democrats or Democratic leaners" each have margins of error on all results of +/- 5 percentage points. The polls were conducted Friday-Sunday.
As we noted earlier, Rasmussen Reports said today that its daily tracking poll showed Clinton's lead over Obama nearly gone and that Huckabee had edged ahead among Republicans.
Huckabee's support rose 9 percentage points from mid-December. McCain's rose 5 points. Giuliani's fell 7 points. Thompson's fell 2 points. Romney's fell 5 points.
The surveys of 423 "Republicans or Republican leaners" and 499 "Democrats or Democratic leaners" each have margins of error on all results of +/- 5 percentage points. The polls were conducted Friday-Sunday.
As we noted earlier, Rasmussen Reports said today that its daily tracking poll showed Clinton's lead over Obama nearly gone and that Huckabee had edged ahead among Republicans.
Gov. Huckabee on Letterman
Gov. Huckabee will be on CBS' Late Show this evening with David Letterman
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Friday, January 4, 2008
Iowa Entrance Polls
A look at what categories and groups Governor Huckabee polled well with:
- Won the female vote with 40 percent
- Won across all age groups, but did disproportionately well among younger people
- Won voters who decided on caucus day
- Won voters most concerned with illegal immigration, the economy and the war in Iraq
- Won conservative and somewhat conservative voters
- Won voters who strongly or somewhat support the Bush administration
- Won middle class and lower income voters
- Won all three regions of Iowa --East, West, Central -- in the poll
Dobson Speaks about Huckabee's win
Ever since the 2006 midterm elections, there have been suggestions that the influence of Christian conservatives on U.S. presidential politics is waning.
But today Focus on the Family founder James Dobson said the Iowa caucus results suggested otherwise.
Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, easily won the GOP vote in Iowa. Roughly 80 percent of his supporters identified themselves as born again or evangelical Christians.
`The results of the Iowa caucuses reveal that conservative Christians remain a powerful force in American politics. That had to be a great shock to those on the far left,'' Dobson said in a release, according to the Associated Press.
The AP reports that Dobson was critical of "media elites" for writing off Christian conservatives and suggested Huckabee's win "`was evidence of an energized and highly motivated conservative community."
The national influence of Christian conservatives in this presidential cycle is still yet to be seen, however. And a tough test for Huckabee will come in New Hampshire, the next state on the voting calendar. It is expected that a far smaller percentage of GOP voters in the Granite State will self-identify as evangelical Christians compared to Iowa, were entrance polls found that almost 60 percent of GOP caucus-goers described themselves as evangelical.
Poster by: Brian Montopoli
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/01/04/politics/horserace/entry3675578.shtml
But today Focus on the Family founder James Dobson said the Iowa caucus results suggested otherwise.
Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, easily won the GOP vote in Iowa. Roughly 80 percent of his supporters identified themselves as born again or evangelical Christians.
`The results of the Iowa caucuses reveal that conservative Christians remain a powerful force in American politics. That had to be a great shock to those on the far left,'' Dobson said in a release, according to the Associated Press.
The AP reports that Dobson was critical of "media elites" for writing off Christian conservatives and suggested Huckabee's win "`was evidence of an energized and highly motivated conservative community."
The national influence of Christian conservatives in this presidential cycle is still yet to be seen, however. And a tough test for Huckabee will come in New Hampshire, the next state on the voting calendar. It is expected that a far smaller percentage of GOP voters in the Granite State will self-identify as evangelical Christians compared to Iowa, were entrance polls found that almost 60 percent of GOP caucus-goers described themselves as evangelical.
Poster by: Brian Montopoli
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/01/04/politics/horserace/entry3675578.shtml
Thursday, January 3, 2008
BREAKING:FOX NEWS PREDICTS HUCKABEE WINS CAUCUS
With only %15 of the Republican caucus reporting Mike Huckabee has already been declared the winner! More info to come later!.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Huckabee's 4 Quarter goal
Mike Huckabee reached his 4 quarter online goal with a total of $5,040,618,46.
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