Mike Huckabee is not a frontrunner:
Mike Huckabee’s presidential effort will report having raised around $1 million in the most recent period. That number is sure to disappoint the political observers who rightly view cash-raised and cash-on-hand numbers as a key indicator of a candidate’s strength.
It’s important to remember that fundraising has never been one of Huckabee’s strengths.
The thought was that Huckabee could take his surprise second-place finish in August’s Iowa straw poll, which he claimed launched his candidacy into the top tier, and raise loads of campaign cash in September. That didn’t happen.
NRO’s Jim Geraghty says the total is “pretty disappointing, considering how he was supposed to catch fire after the second place finish at the Iowa straw poll.”
Unless someone offers him the Veep slot, it looks like that straw poll might turn out to have been the high point of the Huckabee campaign. He seems like the kind of candidate who could be back and stronger in four years — but not if nobody has any faith in his ability to raise money. Really, there’s no excuse — Huckabee has had the benefit of some significant advantages, and he has failed to use them.
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OK – That would be very disappointing since Ron Paul collected over a million online in the last week of the quarter.
Mike was better a better man than Rudy… but who votes for a candidate’s integrity anymore?
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