With Mike Huckabee campaigning pretty hard in New Hampshire these last few days, God-o-Meter wondered: in a comparatively secular state where Huck is nonetheless drawing decent-sized crowds and running a respectable third in the polls, what’s his support base? It turns out that Huckabee’s crowds in New Hampshire aren’t all that different from those he…

No, he’s not airing his Christian Leader ad here. But just because Mike Huckabee’s campaigning in New Hampshire, which lacks Iowa’s religious fervor, doesn’t mean he’s hiding his Christian DNA under a bushel. The Washington Post reports that, while guest preaching at an evangelical church in Windham, NH yesterday, Huckabee told the audience: “ When…

God-o-Meter has noticed a serious question about Huckabee gaining steam, not so much from his Republican rivals but from the news media and–gleefully–from the Democratic Party: in the general election, would Huck stand a chance in must-win purple states like Ohio and Florida? Howard Fineman raises those question in this week’s Newsweek: …[I]n Washington and…

The more it looks at last night’s entrance polls, the more God-o-Meter is stunned by the extraordinary degree to which Mike Huckabee’s Iowa win was due to evangelical support. Check out these lines from The New York Times: A poll of people entering the Republican caucuses on Thursday showed more than 8 in 10 of…

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