Huck and Chuck: Too close for comfort?
Evangelical voters made up about 40% of Mike Huckabee’s turnout in Iowa, but they only make up about 3% of New Hampshire’s population. In this Jan 7 video from Morning Joe, Huckabee and Chuck Norris fight off the sense that this lack of broader faith appeal will hurt in New Hampshire where Huck’s in third place in recent polls.
Despite right winger Chuck Norris’s camp appeal, he is not the most convincing embodiment of Huckabee’s mainstreet appeal. In endorsing Huckabee on fringy World Net Daily, Chuck compared Huck to King David, that fantasy model for Christian and Jewish theocrats. In addition, this is the blog that Norris credits with turning his attention to Huckabee: The Rebelution
Also, as Dan has noted before, if the media wants a good man bites dog story they should check out how many self-described evangelical voters in South Carolina plan to vote for a Democrat this year and which one. On January 19, some entry polling on that question might show an interesting shift.