I haven’t seen Mike Huckabee on the stump, so I have no personal
opinion on his campaigning prowess or national electoral potential,
but I have talked to dozens of activists and politically engaged
citizens on the ground in New Hampshire at events with other
potential Republican candidates and the amount of enthusiastic
gushing I hear about Huckabee’s few appearances here is pretty
amazing. (And caught me utterly off guard—not the best endorsement
for a suppossed political reporter.) I’ve also been told by College
Republicans at two separate school up here that he is their first
choice for an event speaker this semester.
Of course, these things rise and fall fairly quickly, but while
Huckabee might not be on the pundit radar, there is a lot of New
Hampshire grassroots chatter about him.
Sorry to add to the geek water cooler talk.