Headline Roundup • May 5th, 2015
Huckabee Is In
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NPR (Online News)
Meet Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor. Forget about Mike Huckabee, Fox News host.
That's the message the GOP presidential hopeful is already conveying as he makes another bid for the presidency.
"We need the kind of change that really could get America from Hope to higher ground," he said, officially launching his campaign Tuesday in Hope, Ark.
To recapture the magic th
New York Times (News)
The religious right remains the largest voting bloc in the Republican Party, and that gives Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, the potential to play a big role in the presidential nominating contest.
But Mr. Huckabee, who was set to announce his presidential bid Tuesday morning, will have a harder time winning Iowa than he did in 2008, when religious conservatives had serious reservations about the two main candidates, John McCain and Mitt Romney.
This year’s conservative favorites do not have Mr. Romney’s vulnerabilities among evangelicals, like Mormonism or past...
Newsmax (News)
The other man from Hope is running for president again.
Declaring Tuesday that he can bring "the kind of change that truly can get America from hope to higher ground," former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee declared his Republican candidacy in the hometown he shares with former President Bill Clinton.
Roots in Hope are about all he shares with the Democrat, and in his nascent campaign, he's pitching himself as the best Republican to take on Bill's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the dominant Democrat in the 2016 race.
"It would be...
