{"id":4641,"date":"2008-02-06T18:44:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T18:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/is-huckabee-hurting-romney.html"},"modified":"2008-02-06T18:44:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T18:44:39","slug":"is-huckabee-hurting-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/is-huckabee-hurting-romney.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Huckabee hurting Romney?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/gallup\/2008\/02\/is-huckabee-hur.html\">this USA Today\/Gallup poll<\/a> the answer is no.  Huckabee is actually hurting McCain because McCain is the number two choice of 64% Huckabee supporters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McCain wins over Romney as the second choice of Huckabee voters by more than a 2 to 1 margin, 64% to 28%.  Indeed, McCain beats Romney 42% to 24% with Huckabee in the race (Huckabee gets 18% of the vote, Ron Paul gets 5%, and Alan Keyes gets 2%).  With a narrowed-down ballot focused just on McCain and Romney (forcing Huckabee voters to choose between the two front-runners), McCain wins 53% to 30% &#8212; a slightly expanded margin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess the Evangelicals don&#8217;t really care about stem cell research because when McCain&#8217;s president he will sign into law any bill the Congress sends him that funds embryonic stem cell research.<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/gallup\/2008\/02\/is-huckabee-hur.html\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this USA Today\/Gallup poll the answer is no. Huckabee is actually hurting McCain because McCain is the number two choice of 64% Huckabee supporters: McCain wins over Romney as the second choice of Huckabee voters by more than a 2 to 1 margin, 64% to 28%. Indeed, McCain beats Romney 42% to 24%&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is Huckabee hurting Romney? - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/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\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/is-huckabee-hurting-romney.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is Huckabee hurting Romney? - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to this USA Today\/Gallup poll the answer is no. 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