MSNBC has called Louisiana for Mike Huckabee. Sure, Huck got fewer than three in ten non-evangelical voters. But among Pelican State evangelicals, who make up 58-percent of Republican voters there, Huckabee got nearly six in ten votes. With Mitt Romney out of the race, a religious rift has opened in the GOP. One more sign…

And not a moment too soon. God-o-Meter doesn’t know whether to respect Dobson for declining to back Huck while Mitt Romney was still in the race–sending a message to evangelicals that he remained open to a Mormon and that the Arkansas Governor didn’t deserve evangelical support just because he’s a Baptist preacher–or too laugh at…

Last night, Mike Huckabee opened his ebullient Super Tuesday speech in Little Rock with this line: Tonight, we are making sure America understands that sometimes one small smooth stone is even more effective than a whole lot of armor. The crowd went wild. But, as the Bible Belt Blogger wrote recently, most reporters were probably…

Do Mike Huckabee’s surprising Super Tuesday victories in the Deep South–where he took Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and West Virginia–translate into a delegate boost that puts him within reach of the Republican nomination? Almost certainly not, though some of the next primary states in line–Virginia, North Carolina, and Texas, provide some Huck-friendly territory. But Huck’s…

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