Filed under: Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, Sam Brownback, Tancredo
In a posting last week, I looked at the Democratic contenders for president in 2008. As we head into the heart of the fall campaign leading up to the caucuses and primaries, let’s examine the Republican candidates.
RCP: As a social conservative who recently won the Palmetto State Straw poll, how do you explain trailing candidates like Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson in South Carolina?
Mike Huckabee: Well, the numbers that you’re talking about really are reflecting two things. One is the money being spent by the candidates on paid advertisements; two is the amount of exposure they’re getting and free media because of their celebrity status. But when we go head-to-head, I end up winning. So for us it’s always been about the trajectory of momentum which for us has been upward very consistently and if you look at some of the numbers of the so-called frontrunners, they’re polling behind where they themselves were before. Ours have continued to go up, they can continue to level off or slip backwards.
Governor Huckabee backstage in the “Spin Room” turning the tables on the Fox News blogger, and responding again to the absence of Thompson.
