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...Romney has a much more extensive organization in terms of manpower," says Steve Scheffler, president of the Iowa Christian Alliance, who is not endorsing a candidate this cycle. Evangelicals, who make up about 40% of GOP caucusgoers, are drawn to Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist pastor. But Romney has a formidable head start signing them up. Huckabee is scrambling to gain ground, recently taping an interview with a Christian media company--for a small fraction of the cost of television advertising--that churches and congregants can download and watch. And he's counting on the organizational prowess of his homeschooling...
Mike Huckabee, the former Governor of Arkansas, had no trouble connecting with the audience. "I come today as one not who comes to you but as one who comes from you," he said. "You are my roots." He mentioned that he had been a Baptist pastor. He said same-sex marriage defies "the holy word of God." He called abortion a "holocaust." And then he came back to the question of roots. "I think it's important that the language of Zion is a mother tongue and not a recently acquired second language...
Huckabee's faith-based politics have sometimes led him astray. As Governor, he supported letting convicted rapist Wayne DuMond out of prison--a cause championed by Huckabee's friend Jay Cole, a Baptist minister. DuMond then sexually assaulted another woman and killed her. In 1992 Huckabee argued for dealing with AIDS by quarantining those infected...
...materialized in midsummer to catch McCain's crown, but he fizzled fast. Romney became the party's default darling, spending his way to the top of several polls. But now he too has taken hits for being slippery, and what counts as momentum has passed to Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher from, of all places, Hope, Ark. The way the recurring nightmare has been going, Huckabee is likely to be unhorsed right about...
...Sarah - who has two older brothers, one of whom is also working full-time for the campaign - thought about going to law school after graduating from her father's alma mater, Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas. Instead, she switched gears, heading to Washington and the Department of Education; along the way she has worked on two of her Dad's gubernatorial campaigns, a local race in Oregon and President Bush's reelection campaign in Ohio. She inherited the organizational talents of her mother, Janet (who until recently worked for the Red Cross in Little Rock), and the passion for politics...