You Like Mike, I Like Mike, They Like Mike...

...So let's help him win the Straw Poll, in Iowa!*




Here are a few articles, post debate.

• But by the debate’s end, they knew a lot more — and liked what they saw.
• “He speaks to you — he doesn’t try and make everything seem like the correct answer,” Jesse Fetters, 26, a FedEx handler from Des Moines, told The Politico afterward. “He just tells you his answer.”
• Rick Holland, 42, a self-employed plumber from Des Moines, was similarly impressed. “He just came across as an American — as just a hometown guy. That was a big deal to us.”
• 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.
• Huckabee’s best moment — “Off the charts!” crowed Luntz — came when he attacked the Saudi royal family while talking about the importance of reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
• “Look, we’ve made them rich,” Huckabee said. “Every time somebody in this room goes to the gas pump, you’ve helped make the Saudi royal family a little wealthier. And the money that has been used against us in terrorism has largely come from the Middle East.” Huckabee got on such a roll that Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas called out to the moderator, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “George? George?”

For the whole article, go to They Like Mike

• (CNSNews.com) - The presidential campaign of Mike Huckabee is hailing his "post-debate momentum," following the latest gathering of Republican candidates in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sunday. The debate was televised on ABC.
• The Huckabee campaign, meanwhile, is asking its volunteers to "redouble your efforts to get even more Iowans to the straw poll in Ames to vote for Mike Huckabee."
  Chip Saltsman, Huckabee's national campaign manager, said he's had several national reporters tell him that Huckabee is on the verge of emerging as a top-tier candidate. "With your help, a big day in Ames will vault this campaign into the top tier," Saltsman told Huckabee's Iowa volunteers

To read the whole article, Iowa Focus Group Gives Huckabee High Marks

There is still time to go to Iowa, whether ya want to volunteer (or if you are from Iowa VOTE IN THE STRAW POLL). Take a bus, train, plane or automobile. If your worried about room cost, there are ma n' pa places that are cheap. Just go to Yellow Pages online and check out all the names that don't sound like a chain. Ya might be able to get a room for less than $40. Do ya really need fancy ammenities? No, not if the future of our country is at stake. To help Mike Huckabee win the Straw Poll ya can deal with just a place to sleep. DEAL, cause I said so.

*As for the top sentence, my appologies to the Eisenhower Estate.