Plug to be pulled August 12th. From the Des Moines Register: Huckabee’s campaign depends on straw poll
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday that if he finishes fourth or worse in the Aug. 11 Ames straw poll, he will re-evaluate his bid for the presidency.
Recent polls show former Michigan Gov. Mitt Romney with a lead among Republican candidates in Iowa.
Rudy Giuliani and John McCain, the national Republican front-runners, have said they will skip the Iowa Republican Party’s Aug. 11 fundraiser.
Huckabee said if he falls to fourth in the straw poll, “at that point, I have to seriously ask, ‘Do we keep going? Do we have the juice in places like New Hampshire and South Carolina? Where are we gaining ground?’
“But Iowa’s important - that’s why we’re spending all our time here between now and Aug. 11.”
Keep reaching for the stars…uh I mean 3rd place, baby.
I’ve always thought of Huckabee as an amiable fellow, but you can see some frustration boiling over.
Huckabee’s comments came after a campaign stop at the Cottage on Broad restaurant in downtown Story City, where he criticized his rivals’ big-money campaigns.
“I look at some of these guys … how much they spend,” he said. “Do you want someone in charge of the federal treasury who has spent the kind of money some of these guys have spent just to get to July a year and half before the election?”
Romney raised $21 million from January to March, while McCain has had to cut back his staff due to weak fundraising.
McCain raised $11.2 million during the second quarter of campaign fundraising and reported only $2 million in cash on hand.
Huckabee raised about $500,000 in the first quarter of fundraising.
Were it Huckabee’s campaign generating tens of millions in contributions why do I get the feeling he wouldn’t have been issuing out refund checks?
Just by way of information, Mitt Romney is the former Governor of Mass. not Michigan.
You would have figured the Des Moines Register could have gotten that correct.
I’ve heard Huckabee should be a strong conservative candidate, with at least as much potential as Fred Thompson, but that he doesn’t have the money and, more importantly, a good organization.