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Events have vindicated him after being savaged during his presidential campaign by the “so-called intellectual journals of the conservative movement,” former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said during an hour-long radio interview on WHO 1040 Monday.

It seems that the medal for first robocall in Iowa following the 2008 general election goes to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Huckabee’s recorded voice is used on the call, which is a phone survey that, based on the questions asked, seeks to identify politically active opponents of abortion and to request contributions.

The former Arkansas governor who shocked the nation and shook up the race for president when he won January’s Iowa Caucuses was back in Iowa Thursday promoting his newest book.

The fierce battle between former Republican governors Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, which dominated the final months of the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, is once again in the headlines, thanks to Huckabee’s latest book.
And with the quest for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination seemingly already under way (another potential candidate, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, visits Iowa [...]

With former Arkansas governor and Republican caucus victor Mike Huckabee visiting Iowa Nov. 20 and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal visiting Nov. 22, it’s beginning to seem like the race for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination is already underway.
With that in mind, the Sioux City Journal asked 11 Republican county chairs in the conservative stronghold of [...]

 
While insiders spent time recently thinking about what has made Obama’s campaign successful, most talk of the McCain campaign more was about its missteps than its successes.

Social issues and national security ruled the day at the Republican Party of Iowa’s convention, avoiding issues where possible disagreement exists between the party’s base and its presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain.

Ann Selzer hasn’t exactly invented a time machine.

But with her recent spot-on predictions on the highly visible presidential campaign stage, this Des Moines pollster can make as strong a claim for clairvoyance as any earthly being today.

Selzer Co., the Des Moines Register’s pollster of record, called the Iowa caucuses for U.S. Sen. Barack Obama and [...]

As results of the Iowa Caucuses came in tonight, David Oman, former GOP candidate for governor and a top aide to Iowa’s last two Republican governors, had the following observations from Des Moines:

– Watching post caucus remarks, John Edwards looks like old news, and Hillary Clinton comes off as old-old news.

– Sen. Obama had perfect [...]

Former Iowa Congressman Jim Ross Lightfoot tells Iowa Independent that Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama both won on the lilability factor.

A word we heard bantered about was ‘likability,’” Lightfoot said.  “Huckabee and Obama both win on that factor.  They are the kind of people that can be liked by people on both sides.”

Lighfoot, who represented [...]