I have to say that Huckabee scares me more than any other Repub candidate. Palin's a twit, Gingrich just comes across as a bitter a-hole, Romney's too plastic, but Huckabee comes across as very, very likeable.

Well, Huckabee is likeable but he hasn't been scrutizined. I think the country has to fall pretty far off the cliff for the voters to hand the keys back over to another Southern fundamentalist Christian right-winger.

Ok, these mofos severly damaged our country and are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents in iraq. What do they do write a freaking book 4 years after their lies and distortions. This is priceless and why isn't this a crime?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/tom-ridge-i-was-pressured_n_264127.html

Why aren't these people going to jail? I don't get it.

Why do you think he started his own TV show? To get better known....for HIS presidential run in 2012.

My response to these early match-up polls: whatev.

Oh criminy, give me a break. Match-up polls mean less than nothing this far out. They are the opposite of information, especially when the recession is still biting. The only reason a poll like this gets taken this time of year is get the pollster's name in the news and keep their name-recognition going. They do it for free. It's part of the advertising budget.

If that still doesn't calm your angst, dig into the cross tabs and look at the approval ratings based on who the respondent voted for. 91% of Obama voters still approve of him, 4% don't, 6% aren't sure. 10% of McCain voters approve of him. 41% of the people who voted for someone else or can't remember who they voted for (that concept never fails to amaze me) are for him.

90% of liberals approve, 62% of moderates, 21% of conservatives. The coalition that delivered him 367 electoral votes is intact. As to the rest, he's doing pretty damn good for a guy presiding over an the highest unemployment rate in decades.