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Are most of the Ron Paul supporters on here college students who are surrounded by a fair # of other Paul supporters? In middle America, very few people care about Ron Paul and very few more are going to start caring.
Paul is polling well enough in New Hampshire that he might crack double-digits. The same should be true in Nevada.
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Aparently middle America cares about Huckabee.
Religious fundamentalism here we come!
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Brownback dropping out and Tancredo doing nothing of relevance has left Huckabee the default choice of the conservative Christian crowd. It should have been expected that bloc would coalesce their support around a candidate. Huckabee is that guy. He'll be in the race a while, because of the general dissatisfaction with Romney/Giuliani among those voters; the ABC/WashPo poll that came out recently which demonstrated the Huckabee surge was startling because of how many voters have committed to Huckabee and apparently won't be changing their mind:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews
"But almost half of Huckabee's supporters (48 percent) said they would definitely vote for him in January and only a quarter said there was a good chance that they would change their minds before the caucuses. In contrast, just 29 percent of Romney's backers said they would definitely vote for him, while 42 percent said there was a good chance that they could vote for someone else at the caucuses.
The enthusiasm among Huckabee supporters was striking, particularly in a year in which Republicans have been considerably dissatisfied with the field of candidates. Half of those who now back the former Arkansas governor said they are very enthusiastic about him, compared with 28 percent of Romney's backers."