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I headed on over to National Review, and found two items of great interest.
First, from The Corner comes this statistic:
[Out of the Iowa voters], 60% were evangelicals. Huck beat Romney among them 45-19%.
40% weren’t evangelicals. Romney beat Huck among them 33-13%.
In other words, Iowa is an extreme state tailor made for Huckabee. No one believes this kind of win could be repeated. Which brings me to this second article:
What Happens in Iowa, Stays in Iowa
Doesn’t the title just about say it all? Check it out for the great insights.
Good night, all!
Havs
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10:16 pm on January 4th, 2008 1
I saw that, too. It makes sense. I think Huckabee won because he was not a Mormon. Evangelicals liked Romney, but looked for reasons not to because that would require them to vote for a Mormon. Evidence of this is the fact that Romney remained so high in the polls for so long, and then Thompson got in and Romney started falling a little. At least Thompson wasn’t a Mormon. This made evangelicals more comfortable. Then the Huckster began becoming a story, and started looking winnable. Now they could comfortably move over to his camp. Look at Thompson’s poll numbers, as well. When he entered the race, Romney dropped. He stayed strong until just this last month. His numbers and Romney’s dropped while Huck gained. No other candidate appears to have been affected by Huckabee.
9:03 am on January 5th, 2008 2
After outspending Huckabee by an outrageous margin, your man Mitt found that the voters of Iowa, in the end, could not be bought. Nor could they be fooled by a man who oozes insincerity from every pore.
After all the wasted money, and after all the weeks of relentless Huckabee bashing by people like you, your man doesn’t simply get beaten, he gets hammered, crushed. It was like a fight between the schoolyard bully and a 98 pound weakling that ends with the bully suffering a hellacious beat down. Of course the flaw in that analogy is that it is really Romney who is the weakling—a moral weakling, that is. After 7 years of Bush, Americans are used to being lied to and taken for fools. But it seems that they can’t stomach smarmy insincerity; given that this is the stock in trade of the Romney candidacy, therein lies the problem for the plastic man from Massachusetts.
You Romney folks are right about at least one thing, however. Huckabee is indeed a flawed candidate; if nominated it’s hard for me to believe that he has a chance in hell of winning the general election. Most Americans are far too open minded for the over-the-top super-Christianity that seemed to play well with the self-styled moralists in Iowa. But in your frantic search for Huckabee’s flaws as a candidate, the thing that you folks continue to ignore is Romney’s obvious flaws as a human. The ethical and moral lapses, combined with his peculiar penchant for just plain lying, all the while portraying himself as the wholesome candidate of truth, justice and the American way…well in the end even the Republicans who continue to deny themselves the truth about the Bush Administration could not be fooled by Mitt.
So now it’s on to New Hampshire where Mitt is already backpedaling furiously in an attempt to lower expectations. What’s clear, however, is that if the people of New Hampshire see Romney as clearly as Iowans did, all your frantic attempts to discredit Huckabee and McCain will be fruitless. It’s about Mitt now; people don’t trust him, they don’t believe him, they don’t like him. No amount of Huckabee and McCain bashing by the frantic legions of Romney supporters will obscure these simple facts…Mitt’s moral and ethical dwarfism will, in the end, doom him. Evidence, it seems, that primary voters are not as stupid as you and Mitt take them for. The system works!
Have a nice day
Phil
6:04 pm on January 7th, 2008 3
Phil’s funny. It never ceases to amaze me how people like Phil whine and complain about lies and distortions, and yet spout off nothing but lies and distortions. Ugh, how is it that these people never made it out of the 6th grade?!?! Like I said, Phil’s funny.