It's hard to imagine how Huckabee can win

Then there is the fact that until the final few weeks before the Iowa caucuses no one in the field thought Huckabee was an at-all serious candidate — meaning that they ignored him most of the time. McCain and Romney went after each other hammer and tongs in every debate, on the airwaves and anywhere else they could battle. Huckabee was free to run a positive campaign focused on his resume (former pastor, former governor) and the idea that he was the antidote to the nastiness between McCain and Romney.

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Things would be very different this time around. No one would underestimate Huckabee or ignore him. And, his record as governor of Arkansas, which was largely ignored in ’08, would be gone through with a fine-toothed comb by the likes of the fiscally conservative Club For Growth, which loathes Huckabee. How much so? So much so that even the rumors of a potential Huckabee candidacy led the Club to send around its 2008 white paper that attacked him as a serial tax raiser. There’d be plenty more where that came from if Huckabee did run.

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