rssHandicapping the 2012 Iowa Caucus
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 11:27 am
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Yes, already. Cityview, a Des Moines alt-weekly, talks to Hawkeye State Republicans about the prospects for 2012 GOP candidates. Former Mitt Romney state communications director Tim Albrecht says of frontrunner Sarah Palin that “the second she touches down in Iowa, you can bet throngs of supporters will be there to greet her.” Former Mike Huckabee state caucus manager Eric Woolsen says “the McCain people handled her all wrong.” Chase Martyn of our sister site The Iowa Independent says of Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.), “he’s never going to be the star of the Republican Party.”
Some problems with the list: the jokey inclusion of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and the mis-reading of Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) fundraising totals as a sign of White House aspiration. And the list forgets Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.), the head of the Republican Governor’s Association. I haven’t talked to many Republicans who think he can win the White House in 2012 (unless things get so bad that any Republican could win), but he has a bigger network and fundraising base than any candidate save for Romney.
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Comment posted August 11, 2009 @ 4:41 pm
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Comment posted August 11, 2009 @ 7:39 pm
Mike Huckabee shocked the world and won the Iowa Caucus by almost 10% against Romney's well-oiled money machine. Now, everyone wants to give his votes away to Sarah Palin (unbelievable???). So tell me, assuming Huckabee runs, why would the vast majority of passionate Iowans who supported him the last time change their vote when (i) he is still every bit as exciting and reflective of their cause as he was in 2009 (with an even better chance of grabbing the GOP nomination), (ii) he has not relinquished on any of his principles and (iii) nobody else presents those principles any better than he does. (We won't even begin to discuss the fact that (i) he is the most eloquent communicator out there and (ii) Sarah Palin is unelectable in a general election.)
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