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Friday, April 29, 2011

Rasmussen: Huckabee Dropping Out Will Help Dark Horse Emerge

Mike Huckabee’s camp has sought to refute a new report that the former Arkansas governor won’t seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. This latest report comes on top of assertions by political experts that Huckabee won’t run.

A Huckabee withdrawal could bring a dark horse to the front, says pollster Scott Rasmussen, and leaves the Christian evangelical vote looking for a candidate.

The Process Story blog reported that Huckabee “is giving his former S.C. supporters the nod to seek work on other presidential campaigns. The word is that he’s told South Carolina staffers that they have his blessing for them to peddle their wares elsewhere.

“If this is true as it appears, it’s the second major shakeup. On Monday, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour surprised everyone but himself when he announced that he would not seek the GOP nod.”

Process Story points out that “Huckabee had a strong effort in South Carolina during the last run, and would have been the favorite to win the primary if he had fully committed to a run.”

Results of the latest Rasmussen Reports nationwide poll, released on Thursday, show Huckabee in third place among potential GOP candidates with 15 percent of the vote. Donald Trump leads the pack with 19 percent, followed by Mitt Romney with 17 percent.

But Scott Rasmussen, founder and president of Rasmussen Reports, tells Newsmax that a Huckabee departure from the race would not likely benefit any of the current leading contenders, and instead might help a dark horse who is yet to emerge.


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lets all hope. He is a rhino anyway. The result would more than likely be the same.

lmclain said...

The Republicans in the race so far have no chance. they been either beaten before, or have been beaten to death by the media. Beaten either way. A dark horse candidate MUST appear. Please don't let it be a community organizer, a social services worker, a pastor, or a professor. Someone who knows that it's people who work and build business that make our country strong, not people waiting for a check of some kind, supplied by those same workers. Someone who doesn't go around the world telling everyone how bad this country is and how sorry we are for every bad thing that's happened. Someone who knows that Muslims DID NOT help us put men in space or develop the economic engine that dominated the world for the last 70 years. And doesn't bow down to anyone. Someone who knows that letting 5 million people a year sneak into our country illegally can't be a good thing, unless of course, you can give them some help in voting Democrat.