How would Huckabee had done in 2012?

[Mister Mets]

With Huckabee in the race, Santorum's not winning Iowa, and Gingrich isn't winning South Carolina.

But it's possible that these guys might have split the vote so that Romney would get the nomination faster.

Otherwise Huckabee might be the anti-Romney. I think some of Romney's critics would be on his side faster with the theocratic and more fiscally liberal Huckabee getting support. Huckabee would also have problems with financial support, since he's never been a strong fundraiser.

And then there are the effects of gaffes. Huckabee spends much of his time with likeminded supporters, so he might easily not realize that something he says is going to get a lot of blowback with everyone else.

[Mister Mets]

What makes Huckabee so special that he wouldn't have been just another face in the long line of anti-Mitts? Besides the fact that he got fat, of course.

As the winner of the 2008 Iowa caucus, he would have been the most prominent anti-Mitt.