Does Mike Huckabee Have a Prayer?

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He's Absurdly Likeable. A Favorite of the Faithful. But Does Mike Huckabee Have a Prayer?

By Kerry Howley

Pick an issue—any issue—being debated in the United States of America as we approach the 2008 elections, and Mike Huckabee can find a way to tell you that it won’t matter until we collectively slim down. Education? “Kids can’t learn,” he told Charlie Rose in November, “because they’re sick.” The economy? Obesity “will bankrupt this country,” he said in the same interview. The War on Terror? “National security,” he told me in November, “isn’t going to mean much if we have a generation of kids so physically incapacitated they can’t go to war.”

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