{"id":34,"date":"2007-09-18T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/09\/huckabee-wins-values-voter-str.html"},"modified":"2007-09-18T19:40:09","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T19:40:09","slug":"huckabee-wins-values-voter-str","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/09\/huckabee-wins-values-voter-str.html","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee wins values voter straw poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if just showing up is 80-percent of success, God-o-Meter was nonetheless surprised that Mike Huckabee won <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/18\/value-voters-pick-huckabee\/\">62-percent support <\/a>in a straw poll of religious conservatives taken in conjunction with last night\u2019s Values Voters debate (video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valuesvoterdebate.com\/\">here<\/a>) in Florida. Sure, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, and John McCain skipped the debate, calling its relevance into question. And sure the event\u2019s questioners, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eagleforum.org\/\">Eagle Forum<\/a> chief Phyllis Schlafly and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afa.net\/\">American Family Association<\/a> chairman Don Wildmon, have seen their personal influence wane since their heydays in the 1970s and \u201980s. Even so, God-o-Meter was taken aback that Thompson, once expected to be the savior of disgruntled social conservative voters, managed to garner just 4-percent support in the poll\u2014which surveyed several hundred conservatives\u2014and that Romney came in dead last, with 0 support.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if just showing up is 80-percent of success, God-o-Meter was nonetheless surprised that Mike Huckabee won 62-percent support in a straw poll of religious conservatives taken in conjunction with last night\u2019s Values Voters debate (video here) in Florida. Sure, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, and John McCain skipped the debate, calling its relevance&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-34","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>Huckabee wins values voter straw poll - 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\/09\/huckabee-wins-values-voter-str.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Huckabee wins values voter straw poll - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Even if just showing up is 80-percent of success, God-o-Meter was nonetheless surprised that Mike Huckabee won 62-percent support in a straw poll of religious conservatives taken in conjunction with last night\u2019s Values Voters debate (video here) in Florida. 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