{"id":178,"date":"2011-02-25T16:48:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T16:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/02\/social-conservatives-keep-hearting-huck.html"},"modified":"2011-02-25T16:48:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T16:48:05","slug":"social-conservatives-keep-hearting-huck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/02\/social-conservatives-keep-hearting-huck.html","title":{"rendered":"Social conservatives keep hearting Huck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/146336\/Issues-Divide-Republicans-Views-Potential-2012-Contenders.aspx\">new portrait<\/a><br \/>\nof GOP presidential candidate preferences by issue preference displays<br \/>\nsome moderately interesting features. Among frontrunners Huckabee,<br \/>\nRomney, and Palin, Huckabee is the choice of social conservatives;<br \/>\nRomney, of economic conservatives; and Palin, of foreign policy<br \/>\nconservatives. Mostly the differences are not great but a couple stand<br \/>\nout. Huckabee is weak with those Republicans who care most about<br \/>\nbusiness. And Romney is very weak with the moral values crowd, who<br \/>\nprefer Huckabee to him by a 4-1 margin. In other words, the two stand<br \/>\nexactly where they were last presidential cycle.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, 31<br \/>\npercent of GOP voters think business\/economic issues are the most<br \/>\nimportant, compared with 17 percent who think moral\/social issues are.<br \/>\nIf the economy continues to improve, the gap should narrow&#8211;which is<br \/>\ngood news for Huck, and bad for Mitt. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Issues.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spiritual-politics.org\/Issues.gif\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0pt auto 20px\" width=\"514\" height=\"270\" \/>l<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup&#8217;s new portrait of GOP presidential candidate preferences by issue preference displays some moderately interesting features. Among frontrunners Huckabee, Romney, and Palin, Huckabee is the choice of social conservatives; Romney, of economic conservatives; and Palin, of foreign policy conservatives. Mostly the differences are not great but a couple stand out. 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