After Hillary’s rally this morning, we drove out to Mike Huckabee’s chowder-fest in the small town of Wyndham. The whole event was a testament to what a versatile politician Huckabee is. He won in Iowa by being, as his adverts controversially called him, a “Christian leader” but here in New Hampshire, where the evangelical population is only three percent, he has dialled the God factor right down. Instead, he is accentuating his economic populism and his humble origins. The room resounded with applause when he told the crowd, “you’re the ones who make the decisions, not the Wall Street types.”
The Huckabee campaign signed in 600 people but were claiming that the actual attendance was closer to 1,000. Encouragingly for them, the vast majority of the audience seemed to be undecided voters: the reception he got when he left was far warmer than when he entered.
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