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The Huck is Back
BY Caitlin Ginley | April 10, 2008
Former Republican candidate Mike Huckabee announces plans for a new political action committee, Huck PAC, which will support Republican John McCain and other conservative candidates, Time reports.
Huckabeen
BY Josh Israel | March 04, 2008
Republican Mike Huckabee withdraws from the presidential race after John McCain clinches the GOP nomination.
“They kept saying I couldn’t last because I didn’t have the money,” Huckabee says. “I think I’ve proven that point to be wrong, dreadfully wrong. And I’m glad of that, because I hope in the future that people will run on their ideas and not just their checkbooks.”
The Letter of the Law
BY Sarah Laskow | February 13, 2008
The Reverend Wiley Drake, a high-profile pastor in the Southern Baptist Convention, says that the Internal Revenue Service is investigating him for using church stationery to publicize his endorsement of Republican Mike Huckabee, the Associated Press reports. Churches can lose their tax-exempt status if their officials endorse political candidates.
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, a nonpartisan group whose “Project Fair Play” aims to “stop illegal church electioneering,” filed a complaint against Drake with the IRS.
Dollar Signs
BY Josh Israel | February 11, 2008
Democrat Barack Obama raised more money last year in three of the four states that held caucuses over the weekend than rival Hillary Clinton, an analysis of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics shows. Obama won all four contests.
Republican Mike Huckabee won two of the three weekend votes his party held, even though he trailed John McCain and at least four other current or former GOP candidates in fundraising in each of the three states.
The Ads Ad Up
BY Josh Israel | February 05, 2008
In the two weeks leading up to Super Tuesday, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama poured more than $21 million combined into television advertising, CNN reports. This was more than three times the amount collectively spent by Republican candidates Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Ron Paul, and Mitt Romney. Candidates and independent groups have spent more than $169 million on television ads this election cycle — a record amount.
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