I live in Georgia. Suburban Georgia. It's worse than you think. Lately though, friends have been asking (whispering - conspiratorially) that they just may be willing to vote Democratic this year and who do I like (I suspect many of them simply will not vote in November, but I allow the possibility). At first it was jaw-dropping - I have long been the subject of largely good-natured ribbing (email, tennis practice, at the grocery store, you name it) because of the big capital D that would come after my name if I ran for political office. But now that this phenomenon is becoming more commonplace, I need your help.
None of my friends, that I've talked to so far anyway, claim to have voted for Huck. As a matter of demographics they are all higher income, college educated, Christians, and painfully white. The majority of my friends that I have talked to/emailed claim to be duly ashamed at their state choice (they prefer McCain or Romney almost evenly if they had to pick a GOP candidate, which they'd rather not). They asked me what I thought of Huckabee. I did some quick research and emailed the snippets below to them.
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