Huckabee: It’s ’50/50′ He Will Enter Prez Horserace

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee told Fox News Sunday‘s Chris Wallace that it’s even odds for another run at the White House:

Although he said he won’t make a final decision until after next year’s midterm elections, Huckabee’s comments are the clearest sign so far that he plans to enter the presidential race.

“I would say at this point it is 50-50,” Huckabee told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. “As people approached me and asked me about [running for president], I had friends that said, ‘Let’s do a poll, let’s see if you’re in the mix.’ Those are things you listen to.” In the near term, Huckabee said, he will stay focused on hosting his radio and TV talk shows. “But I’ll just keep [the presidential] option open.”

A former pastor, Huckabee mounted an unsuccessful campaign in 2008 for the GOP presidential nomination. His blend of economic populism and conservative Christian values struck a chord with many voters, however, and Huckabee won the Republican caucuses in West Virginia, Kansas and Iowa.

Should he run again in 2016, Huckabee could be a formidable candidate in a Republican field dominated so far by upstart senators like Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas.

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.