Religious vote vaults Huckabee to win
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Evangelical Christians and those who want a candidate to share their religious beliefs vaulted Mike Huckabee to victory and rejected Mitt Romney in Iowa's Republican caucuses Thursday night, a survey of early arrivals found.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Mike Huckabee won the Kansas Republican presidential caucuses, beating John McCain, according to projections by television networks and the Associated Press.
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On GOP side, Huckabee wins Kan. and La. contests, leaving McCain with narrow victory in Wash.
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Senator Barack Obama was lifted to victory by a high turnout. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee defeated the better funded Mitt Romney.
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Religious conservatives have triumphed in their bitter ideological struggle within the US Republican party and imposed tough stands against abortion, gay marriage and stem-cell research.
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Mike Huckabee said on Saturday he was not quitting the Republican Party's nomination race to contest the presidential election in November, despite trailing far behind rival John McCain.
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Mike Huckabee needed incredible turnout from evangelical voters to win Iowa. Hillary Clinton was counting on the women's vote to beat Barack Obama. Huckabee succeeded; Clinton did not. The result? Two new front-runners in the White House race have emerged heading into New Hampshire's primary.
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Rising Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee risked his standing with Catholic voters on Sunday by courting his evangelical base at the church of a controversial preacher accused of disparaging Catholics.
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Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee would seem to be the answer to their prayers, yet for many Christian conservatives in Iowa, he has not closed the deal for the Republican caucuses.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Mike Huckabee roiled the Republican presidential contest last night as the former Arkansas governor, who barely registered in polls only a few months ago and had little money, won the party's Iowa caucuses.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Iowa's religious conservatives, a powerful force in Republican presidential politics for two decades, could be kingmakers again in 2008 -- but it is unclear which candidate will win their support.
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Mike Huckabee, a Baptist preacher turned politician, grabbed a slight lead over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Thursday night in the Iowa caucuses, first test in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards vied for the Democratic victory.
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Senator John McCain was successful in the delegate-rich states, while Mike Huckabee racked up victories across the South.
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Against overwhelming odds, Mike Huckabee keeps brushing off calls to drop his presidential bid for the good of the Republican Party. The former Arkansas governor and ordained Baptist minister is following in the footsteps of past spoilers such as Republican Ronald Reagan in 1976 and Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in 1980, who both pressed uphill primary challenges to the limits.
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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee made no apologies Sunday for the religious tone of a recent holiday campaign commercial and said it is important to look for Jesus at this time of year.
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Mike Huckabee turned out evangelical voters and Barack Obama captured black and young voters as both won Alabama's presidential primaries Tuesday.
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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee won 18 delegates here Tuesday as backers of rival John McCain threw him their support to prevent Mitt Romney from capturing the winner-take-all GOP state convention vote.