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Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 11:00 am

Mike Huckabee joins us. We’ll get the Huckabee view of the GOP now, and the Republican Party in the Obama era.

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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 10:00 am

In the homestretch to Iowa and New Hampshire, former Arkansas governor and Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee has been the stunning wild card in the GOP pack. He’s spent next to nothing, turned his back on a generation of angry conservatism, and is now in striking distance of big wins in the Republican presidential primaries.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 10:00 am

By guest host Jane Clayson
Like a revivalist preacher riding into town, Mike Huckabee — the former Baptist minister, Arkansas Governor, and long-shot Republican presidential candidate — is hogging the limelight, and sparking a lot of curiosity.
In new polls released this week, he has surged to the top of the GOP field in Iowa, and is [...]

 
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