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...Monday, Huckabee committed another blunder at a press conference by screening a new attack ad against Romney for journalists, while announcing at the same time that he would not broadcast the piece on Iowa television. Claiming to have made the decision against airing the ad just moments earlier, Huckabee appeared surprised that anyone would see the move as a cynical - if not hypocritical - maneuver. But given the mores of the national political press, the surprise move and its unclear motivations seem certain to dominate the news cycle heading into New Year's, providing the wrong kind of press for Huckabee...
...litle late for that? With just days to the Iowa caucuses, and Huckabee polling in a dead heat with the well-funded Mitt Romney, time is short and the pressure is intense. The potential for slipups is increased by the fact that Huckabee depends heavily on the media to get his message out, forcing him to endure frequent interviews that will be combed over for any inaccuracy...
...human one. It's the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of 5,000 people." A few days later Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister, asked a New York Times reporter whether opponent Mitt Romney's faith holds that Jesus and Satan are brothers. The question came off as calculated and narrowly religious, and the national press jumped on it. Huckabee had to apologize to Romney...
...TIME: On Thursday you are going to be going up against a very well funded and very professional [Romney] organization to get people out [to vote]. How important are the informal and formal networks in this state, the Bible study groups? How important is it that people are talking about you in church...
...Mitt Romney has a vacation home there, he has governed next door, so obviously a close connection. And Giuliani is not very far away in New York and the northeast, so that's why if we are in fourth place, we are still in the game. Maybe we will do better than that, but we may not. I think we have good solid support in New Hampshire with the people who are supporting us. But clearly it is not as widespread...