{"id":146,"date":"2007-12-03T21:48:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T21:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/12\/behind-huckabees-surge-an-evan.html"},"modified":"2007-12-03T21:48:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T21:48:46","slug":"behind-huckabees-surge-an-evan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/12\/behind-huckabees-surge-an-evan.html","title":{"rendered":"Behind Huckabee&#8217;s Surge, an Evangelical Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"huckabee.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/huckabee.jpg\" width=\"75\" \/>A &#8220;10&#8221; rating from God-o-Meter has its advantages. Consider yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/desmoinesregister.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071202\/NEWS09\/312020005\"><em>Des Moines Register<\/em><\/a> poll showing that Mike Huckabee has vaulted ahead of the Republican pack.<br \/>\n<em>The Register<\/em> explains that Romney, the former Iowa GOP frontrunner, saw a 5-point drop in support since October due largely to losing evangelical support to Huckabee:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Register&#8217;s new scientific poll shows Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, leading Romney 38 percent to 22 percent among those who consider themselves born-again Christians. In October, Romney edged Huckabee 23 percent to 18 percent among people in that group, which accounts for one-half of all likely caucus participants.<br \/>\nSimilarly, Huckabee holds a 2-to-1 lead over Romney among those who say it is more important for a presidential candidate to be socially conservative than fiscally conservative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still wondering why Romney&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/12\/romney-to-deliver-religion-spe.html\">Mormon speech<\/a>&#8221; is coming this week?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;10&#8221; rating from God-o-Meter has its advantages. Consider yesterday&#8217;s Des Moines Register poll showing that Mike Huckabee has vaulted ahead of the Republican pack. The Register explains that Romney, the former Iowa GOP frontrunner, saw a 5-point drop in support since October due largely to losing evangelical support to Huckabee: The Register&#8217;s new scientific&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-huckabee"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Behind Huckabee&#039;s Surge, an Evangelical Surge - God-O-Meter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/12\/behind-huckabees-surge-an-evan.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Behind Huckabee&#039;s Surge, an Evangelical Surge - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A &#8220;10&#8221; rating from God-o-Meter has its advantages. 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