<p>Mike Huckabee started the day in Columbia with a speech before the South Carolina Renewal Project.</p>

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<p>Sarah Posner has done some great <a href="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=01&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=huckabees_pastor_getoutthevote">reporting</a> about various state Renewal Projects, which lately have a habit of holding their Pastors Policy Briefings just before primaries. Huckabee was the only presidential candidate to attend a recent session in Iowa, and the other <span class="caps"><span class="caps"><span class="caps"><span class="caps">GOP</span></span></span></span> candidates can&rsquo;t help wondering how big a role his appearance there, before hundreds of pastors with real get-out-the-vote potential, played in his early victory.</p>

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<p>Newt Gingrich was one of the star attractions at the Iowa briefing, and while he wasn&rsquo;t in Columbia, he is on the schedule for next week&rsquo;s meeting in Orlando. Huckabee is speaking Monday night and Gingrich is up on Tuesday&mdash;and Republican voters in the Sunshine State go to the polls a week later.</p>

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<p>Despite their sometimes double-billing, Gingrich hasn&rsquo;t endorsed a candidate yet. But some on the right <a href="http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/39b76033-57af-4054-bfb9-aa5b951c7ab6">see</a> the Republican primary free-for-all as still providing an opening for Gingrich to stake his claim to the top of the ticket. Is he what the voters really want?</p>

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