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Mike Huckabee in the News!

Friday, January 4, 2008:

Michigan looms bigger for Romney
Weakened by Iowa defeat, GOP contender faces battles with Huckabee, McCain

Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Washington Bureau

Mike Huckabee's underdog victory over Mitt Romney in Thursday's Iowa caucuses will reverberate through the Republican presidential contest all the way to Michigan's Jan. 15 primary.

..."We're going to do everything we can to disproportionately turn out churchgoers," said Gary Glenn, a Midland social conservative activist and Huckabee supporter.

In the past, Christian conservatives have made up anywhere from a quarter to a third of the Republican electorate in Michigan. In a Detroit News-WXYZ Action News poll last month, 40 percent of likely Republican primary voters in Michigan described themselves as evangelical or fundamentalist Christians.

Huckabee won Iowa despite being outspent by millions of dollars and despite having far fewer paid staffers than Romney. Romney still holds that significant financial advantage - which Glenn claimed will make no more difference in Michigan than in Iowa.

"Who needs resources?" Glenn said Thursday night. "These are the same people who said he didn't have the resources to win in Iowa. He's rewritten the campaign manual."

http://www.detnews.com:80/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080103/UPDATE/801030475/1022/politics

Thursday, January 3, 2008:

Michigan waits in wings as Iowa caucuses
Detroit News

Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Washington Bureau

...Meanwhile, more than a dozen Huckabee backers gathered at a Sterling Heights restaurant to watch the Iowa coverage and plan ways to boost their candidate in Michigan. Jeff Quesnelle, a Huckabee supporter, said he believes Huckabee's conservative credentials on issues such as abortion and gay marriage will gain traction here.

"If we show people this is what we care about, we imagine it will be close," Quesnelle said. But he admitted that Romney has more support among the state's Republican leadership.

In a conversation last week, Quesnelle said, Huckabee told him "it would be a coup of epic proportions if we win Michigan."

http://www.detnews.com:80/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080103/UPDATE/801030475/1022/politics

Friday, December 21, 2007:

GOP race in Mich. is up for grabs
Poll: Romney and Huckabee are front-runners as Giuliani support dwindles, McCain slips slightly.

Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Washington Bureau

Michigan's Republican presidential primary is a wide-open, volatile race, with Rudy Giuliani's support dropping by more than half in the past month, while Mike Huckabee's has doubled.

With less than a month before the Jan. 15 primary, a Detroit News/WXYZ-Action News poll shows Michigan native Mitt Romney with 21 percent and Huckabee at 19 percent -- a lead within the poll's 4-point error margin. Giuliani dropped from 28 percent in mid-November to 12 percent today; Arizona Sen. John McCain, who won Michigan's 2000 primary, is at 10 percent, compared with 12 percent last month. more...

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