While Iowa and the nation await Fred Thompson's entry into the Republican race, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee with his highest support yet, tying Senator John McCain with 8% of "likely Republican caucus-goers."
He is also blowing away the focus groups, reports The Politico's Mike Allen:
Fetters and Holland were among 29 GOP voters from the Des Moines area assembled here by Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster and political consultant, and by Fox News."Huckabee is hitting it out of the park with these people," Luntz, a Fox contributor, said as he listened to comments from this small but influential group of voters, whose reactions will be featured on Fox News.
Their reasoning -- he was appealing because he seemed like a non-Washington, regular guy -- may sound a wake-up call for the leaders in the race.
Read the whole story at the above link. I don't know that Huckabee is going anywhere, but if he is to go anywhere it will have to start in Iowa. With Giuliani, McCain, and Thompson not actively fighting to win the Ames Straw Poll, and Romney scaling back his own effort there, this is Huckabee's chance to break out of the pack of also-rans and into the first tier.
For more information, read Huckabee's interview with Ed Morrissey and NZ Bear at Heading Right.
Thanks to Ed at Captain's Quarters for pointing to these stories.
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