{"id":2977,"date":"2007-10-04T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:35:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:35:57","slug":"clinton-gives-nod-to-huckabee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/clinton-gives-nod-to-huckabee\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton gives nod to Huckabee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Arkansas Gov. and former U.S. President Bill Clinton<\/strong> gave a nod toward Gov. Mike Huckabee<\/a><\/strong> this week on ABC’s “This Week.”
\nWhile right-wing Christian conservatives threaten to pull from the GOP party, Clinton had this to say to George Stephanopoulos<\/strong> about the former Arkansas Gov.:<\/p>\n

Mr. Huckabee is the “only dark horse that’s got any kind of chance. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 He’s the best speaker they’ve got.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Former presidential candidate Newt Gingrich expressed a similar statement:<\/p>\n

Mr. Gingrich described the candidate on the same show as “very effective. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 If Huckabee can find money, he will be dramatically competitive almost overnight. You have to like Mike.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A recent Newsweek poll shows Huckabee continues to gain momentum.
\nHuckabee is now ahead of Sen. John McCain<\/strong> in Iowa and nearly tied with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani<\/strong>, according to a Sept. 29 Newsweek poll conducted with 1,215 Iowa registered voters by Princeton Survey Research Associates International on Sept. 26-27
\nIn a campaign press release Huckabee<\/span> said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Newsweek poll reflects what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been feeling on the ground for some time: that there is steady, upward momentum for my campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire, and other early primary states… We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a winning message. Our focus is on the money game.”
\nIn addition, the campaign press release pointed to a possible match-up between Clinton’s wife Sen. Hillary Clinton<\/strong> and Huckabee.<\/p>\n

Last month, a NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll showed Huckabee and former Gov. Mitt Romney nearly tied in respective head to head match-ups against Hillary Clinton. Clinton led Huckabee 50-36 with 6% undecided, while she led Romney 51-38 with 5% undecided. The poll also gave Huckabee the lowest negative ratings among all Republican candidates for President, boding well in a potential match-up against Clinton.
\nHuckabee said Sen. Clinton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153front-runner\u00e2\u20ac\u009d status gives her a natural advantage, which could be overcome \u00e2\u20ac\u0153once Republicans rally around their candidate.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Arkansas Gov. and former U.S. President Bill Clinton gave a nod toward Gov. Mike Huckabee this week on ABC’s “This Week.” While right-wing Christian conservatives threaten to pull from the GOP party, Clinton had this to say to George Stephanopoulos about the former Arkansas Gov.: Mr. Huckabee is the “only dark horse that’s got … Continue reading Clinton gives nod to Huckabee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[55,54,56,59,57,52,53,58],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-abc-this-week","tag-bill-clinton","tag-george-stephanopoulos","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-john-mccain","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-rudy-giuliani"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-M1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10917,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/10917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}