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Huckabee Wins Conservative Straw Poll

Palin lags behind with Pawlenty, Romney, Pence

By Neal Colgrass| Posted Sep 19, 09 8:00 PM CDT|

(Newser) – Mike Huckabee easily won a presidential straw poll today at a conference for social conservatives, Politico reports. The former Arkansas governor garnered 28% of 597 votes at the annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC. Tying for second, each with about 12% of the vote, were former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, House Minority Conference Chairman Mike Pence, and Sarah Palin.

Huckabee also won in 2007, a few months before the GOP primary, in which he failed to convince conservatives that he could win the presidency. “I still think he has potential," said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. But another council official added that many at the conference “are looking for a new voice out there.” Palin's weak finish may surprise some, but unlike the other top finishers, she failed to show up.

This July 26, 2009 file photo shows Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin waving goodbye to supporters after giving her resignation speech during a ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, file)

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty speaks at a luncheon during the Republican National Committee summer meeting Thursday July 30, 2009, in San Diego, Calif. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)

Chairman of the US House Republican Conference Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., appears on "Meet the Press'" Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, at the NBC studios in Washington. (AP Photo/Meet The Press, Alex Wong)

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won the 2008 Iowa presidential caucus, speaks to local residents, Wednesday, June 10, 2009, in Arnolds Park, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures while delivering remarks at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, Monday, June 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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dontlikeyou
Sep 19, 09 8:48 PM CDT

Wasn't Hillary supposed to be president according to polls in 2005/2006? Reply

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dontlikeyou
Sep 19, 09 9:35 PM CDT

But alas, one of them will be your president after the 2012 election. You know this to be true because you, like the rest of America, see where the disaster of the Obama administration is going.

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oldgoat
Sep 20, 09 1:28 AM CDT

Actually it doesn't mean anything. Straw polls are worthless. Just look at the 08 results. The GOP forgets though that while Obama isn't doing as good as I would have liked he is still doing far better than what I believe that white haired old guy that admitted he knew nothing about fianance and the bimbo that couldn't even finish her term as Gov of the 4th smallest populated state.

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Pragmaticrealism
Sep 20, 09 2:14 AM CDT

Is this the best we can do in a country of +300 million? Who else does the R party have to offer?? Jindal, Rockefeller, Limbaugh, BECK!? Beck vs. possible allegations: gb1990.com Why not just cut to the chase and nominate a CEO of some corporation that fills republican checkbooks.. Or even better, a Bible-thumping preacher from some "superchurch". Might as well

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emptycalm
Sep 20, 09 2:15 AM CDT

you must think the american people are really dumb to want to go back to the same idiots who screwed everything up in the first place. Even if the dems do fail, why would anyone want to go back to the republican party as it is today? The party of statist reactionaries needs to be dissolved and something that more represents the people needs to come about because as it is now, that does not exist. You may think it does but you're obviously completely overtaken by propaganda. Stop watching fox news dude.

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riffran
Sep 19, 09 8:48 PM CDT

Like her hate her don't matter...Palin has self inflicted a mortal political wound....This poll is no suprise Reply

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Reader64481089
Sep 20, 09 8:25 AM CDT

"Palin's weak finish may surprise some, but unlike the other top finishers, she failed to show up."...She failed to show up, she resigns after 6 months on two positions.....Nothing new here at all for her and this combined with her head up her...... syndrome is exactly why she is where she stands today, the President of the Facebook wannabe list

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Robert_Dada
Sep 19, 09 8:52 PM CDT

This is like the Keystone Cops of presidential candidates. Reply

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shonangreg
Sep 19, 09 9:00 PM CDT

I thought the only honest one among them was Huckabee. Then he goes to this conference and starts railing against the czars. It has not been an issue till Obama, now suddenly its important? Huckabee was just chiming in with what everyone else was on about. He also seems to have no good ideas of his own. It's pitiful -- Huckabee and the whole Republican Party . . .

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Robert_Dada
Sep 19, 09 9:05 PM CDT

Huckabee has always been a complete waste. He believes in the Bible literally. We don't need that kind of dark ages thinking in the White House.

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dontlikeyou
Sep 19, 09 9:33 PM CDT

The funny thing is, one of them will be president in 2012 and you liberals know this to be true.

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Robert_Dada
Sep 19, 09 9:39 PM CDT

Wrong again dontlikeyou - nothing surprising there.

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Deebles
Sep 19, 09 10:15 PM CDT

I agree Shona that Huckabee is certainly acceptable to a liberal like me and then he does throw the czar thing out--but that's what gets him this Newser moment. JFK ran on a Missile gap. That was the sum told of his campaign. When he became President and got the CIA briefing that not only wasn't there a gap but we outnumbered the Soviets by two to one--he just said, fuck. He did say that, and you can find it in about fifty different sources. My point is that he didn't know anything UNTIL he became President. As for Palin--good grief, she is so yesterday. If she'd sucked it up and got a tutor and learned and worked her butt off she'd be a force. Sorry, but as a woman I get to say this--when you spend twenty years riding your perfect-shaped ass it is really hard to drop that and pick up a book.

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easterner
Sep 19, 09 10:45 PM CDT

Huckabee's Campaign song......... Someones singing lord, Hucka bee... Someones bragging lord, Hucka bee... Someones lying lord, Hucka bee Oh lord, Hucka bee ......

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NewserScooter
Sep 19, 09 11:02 PM CDT

The issue A&G is not that he has advisors its who they are, and the things they have claimed.

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Todd_English
Sep 19, 09 9:12 PM CDT

Huckabee thinks dinosaurs roamed the earth with humans....Same with Palin. Lots of stupid Republicans. Reply

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dontlikeyou
Sep 19, 09 9:34 PM CDT

It must be tough to be as perfect as you Todd_English. How can you hold your inflated head up without tipping over?

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Robert_Dada
Sep 19, 09 9:41 PM CDT

dontlikeyou: quit evading (as usual) and respond to the claims about Huckabee. He's a moronic Jesus-freak who believes in sh*t that never ever happened. What's your take on all that?

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Deebles
Sep 19, 09 10:21 PM CDT

And Kennedy thought the Pope was God's representative on earth. I don't give a shit what someone believes--I care about what they know and the agility of their mind. Believe me, Huckabee is the frontal-lobe standard for the Republicans right now.

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passinthru
Sep 20, 09 1:50 AM CDT

Yeah deebees RIGHT NOW he is...but that doesnt mean shit since he was a f*ckin joke 5 years ago, and moreso even now considering hes the only available crutch the shitty GOP has to lean on...and dontlike you, if you even think for one second that another rightwinger will be in the whitehouse in any time less than the next 12 years, then youre really as dumb as your comments make you look to be.

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Reader64481089
Sep 20, 09 8:27 AM CDT

Robert, PLEASE don't encourage dontlikeherself to spam even more, I equate it to the Please Don't Feed The Monkey sign at the zoo, same result they wind up tossing feces at innocent bystanders when things don't go their way

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Enoughie
Sep 19, 09 9:31 PM CDT

If straw polls counted for anything Ron Paul would have been president right now... Reply

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Doctor_Zaius
Sep 19, 09 9:52 PM CDT

Thank God he's not. If you step away from his stance on the deficit and Iraq he was a freakshow.

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Forderon
Sep 20, 09 12:51 AM CDT

Agreed. Ron Paul is just as much of a loon as the rest except for Iraq. He's one of the many deluded minds who thinks one extreme of any economic/political system (in his case, libertarianism) actually works. This has never been the case, ever.

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passinthru
Sep 20, 09 1:53 AM CDT

too bad hes not a decade younger, he would be in the forefront shooting his party in the foot because of all of his disagreements he has with their standards that they might actually come out looking a tad bit humanesque.

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Doctor_Zaius
Sep 20, 09 2:31 AM CDT

I would rather have Ru Paul as president over Ron Paul

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yoeydude
Sep 19, 09 10:05 PM CDT

huckfull o shit is the alter ego of g beck ,... same message different delivery vehicle Reply

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Deebles
Sep 19, 09 10:38 PM CDT

First, Beck has no alter ego because his ego takes up both sides of the fence. Beck has no message except what is contrary to CNN everyday. The same way that he had no message on CNN except what was contrary to Fox everyday. If you don't remember a bleeding heart liberal Beck on CNN screaming about our needing socialized medicine--well, hah, hah for you. Sucked in by a snake charmer. He's a fucking Jennifer Anniston dancing on tippy toes to retain profitability and air time. What is odd about that? Oh, you think that he MEANS what he says--do you think that Jennifer does? The woman's made more money off a divorce than Amy Irving. Money. Money. Money. OK, if it were Ghengis Khan, I'd say power. But, that time is long gone.

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hughchi
Sep 19, 09 10:34 PM CDT

Led by an army of loudmouth lowbrow lunatics, America is marching inexorably towards international irrelevance. Reply

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JaneMP
Sep 19, 09 10:42 PM CDT

I hate that this conference is called a meeting of VALUE VOTERS. I consider myself a value voter. My valueas are: spend MUCH more on eedcating our children; make sure all children have enuogh to eat; make sure all people have access to affordable health care; make sure our prisoners are treated humanly; don't go to war unless attacked and--even then--we have amn explainable purpose and an exit policy. Take the huge salaries away from Wall Street and use them to raise teachers' salaries, buld school and buy good textgbooks so we don't lose the best teachers because the coniditons are so bad. Those are yy values. I like them better than the values these people espouse. Reply

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Deebles
Sep 19, 09 10:49 PM CDT

Jane has the values that I'd love to see. It would be so easy to fulfill everything you wrote. If we weren't a warring nation that got wealthy on WW! and WW11 and has a difficult time being anything but the Spartans. And I get to say that cause even the Greek women in Lysistrata finally put their foot down about every penny going to the sword.

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NewserScooter
Sep 19, 09 11:06 PM CDT

We should probably spend some money to teach you how to type as well. How much should we give you?

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Deebles
Sep 20, 09 4:14 AM CDT

hey newserscoot--fuck you. Someone said that to me the other day about a heartfelt opinion. So, I have no trouble saying it to you who be bitching about typing. Fuck typing. My friend has Lou Gehrig's disease--easier that trying to tell you guys the name and she types with a spoon in her mouth. Wanna bitch about her typing? Ass wipe. Don't you get it? This is the internet--you can't insult anyone until they insult you first.

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Snarfeh
Sep 19, 09 10:44 PM CDT

Huckbee is a name that originated in the U.K. I want to see his birth certificate. And dude, Huck, you are putting on the pounds again...you gonna need health insurance when the ol' ticker needs stents? Didn't think so.... Reply

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Adapt-Overcome
Sep 19, 09 11:23 PM CDT

When you look at that list....it's self explanitory. Pence is worthless, Palin's a joke, Pawlenty is so tied into to the pharmasutical (?) companies it's unreal, so who's left....a nut job that also racist (remember his joke at the NRA meeting). Slim...slim....slim pickins at this "Value" summit. No one of Value showed up. Reply

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Doctor_Zaius
Sep 20, 09 2:34 AM CDT

That's an inside joke in the Right-wing. Remember the "Clean-Air" act made our air dirty? So it goes with the "Value" summit. The only people who show up have no values.

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Nwambe
Sep 20, 09 12:35 AM CDT

Wait a minute... Not a single visible minority among the candidates. That can't be good.... Reply

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doingtherightthing
Sep 20, 09 1:55 AM CDT

Your time is ending soon trolls, starting in 2010. Then in 2012 Huckabee, Romney or Pawlenty will be the new president. The leftwing trolls fall, will be fast and swift. Don't look back trolls somebody is gaining on your head troll Obama.... Reply

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emptycalm
Sep 20, 09 2:19 AM CDT

And then what? We go through another 4 years of george bush/reagen clones? No one is into that. Sorry.

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Doctor_Zaius
Sep 20, 09 2:35 AM CDT

Give it up Douchebag. Nobody believes you, even you don't.

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yoeydude
Sep 20, 09 2:38 AM CDT

go back to bed and take your meds

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oldgoat
Sep 20, 09 4:33 AM CDT

Romney I could halfway choke down, but Huckabee? When I want a preacher I'll go to church, but I sure don't want him in the WH. Pawlenty? He is out in la la land and thinks he's smart.

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yoeydude
Sep 20, 09 5:16 AM CDT

I hope everyone can catch the Values Summit , on C-SPANN it is a riot , just watched Tin Pawlentless , man thats some Minnesota milquetoast , but the crowd and their standing Os ,,,,, poor ol' pale folk , all dressed in polyester ,..... its funny , but pathetic at the same time Reply

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jemikeos
Sep 20, 09 9:16 AM CDT

A rather motley assortment of political misfits and has beens. Reply

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MarkFL
Sep 20, 09 1:16 PM CDT

I bet Huckabee would do just as well as he did before! Lose! Bring him on. What is it exactly that Obama is doing to mess up the country? Conservatives are making a bunch of noise but i can't even say for sure what it is that they are going nuts over. Health care reform? Are you really opposed to people getting health care? The only problem that the moderate Obama is having now is that he is bending over backward to compromise with people who only care about his total destruction. I agree with Robert, no matter how bad Obama gets, it will certainly be better than the medieval philosopher Huckabee. If you think that dinosaurs and people walked the earth together, you might be a redneck but should definitely not be the president! Reply

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KathyRay
Sep 21, 09 2:12 AM CDT

NOT ME..... I hope Romney will run... We are going to need his way with "NUMBERS"... Huckabee is a Nice Guy... BUT he's not strong enough for the "Oval Office" Reply

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Monjubikahn
Oct 16, 09 4:24 AM CDT

America. The women rule. We are all asleep. Soon Sarah Palin will wake us up and ask us if we had pleasant dreams. Reply

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