My guess on what a 57-43 election looks like with Clinton against Huckabee
Out on a limb? Sure. The strongest percentage for a Democratic nominee since 1964 was Barack Obama in 2008, so a 57-43 split of the popular vote for a Democrat is uncharted territory. Huckabee has a regional strength, but huge regional weaknesses.
Yeah... this won't happen.
Huckabee has too many weaknesses for Republicans outside his core area of support to win the Republican nomination.
Some early polls suggest elections that will never happen -- like Obama vs. Palin in 2008.
I know this won't happen, but in any scenario, why would Huckabee lose Kansas, Nebraska, or the Dakotas...?
He is that poor a cultural match for the Plains states other than Oklahoma and Texas.
Sometimes, early polls show the results of an election that never happens... think of how bad things looked for an Obama-Palin matchup in early 2009. I don't know if I can get to the polling patterns from then, but I noticed that she could not relate to people who are not native speakers of English. To talk to such people, even if they are highly proficient in English, one is wise to cleave closely to the formal register as do the phrasebooks and the formal teaching of English to non-native speakers. I learned that quickly at a highly-regarded university in California. Sarah Palin did not.
Huckabee does well to the extent that Southern Baptists are a part of the electorate.
