Huckabee however would be a total disaster. Can you imagine seriously arguing that Mike Huckabee is the man the country needs to get through an economic crisis? He's already alienated suburban Republicans, that would turn into a giant collapse. Obama would've broken 60% in DuPage and would probably even take Orange County. Huckabee would only win the states he'd win on racism or the hardcore socially conservative base. The eastern half of the country looks the same but he also loses the Dakotas, NE-1 and thus NE-AL, Montana, Arizona and Alaska. The national map doesn't look much different, but the county map would be absolutely brutal. Obama might actually carry every county in New Jersey for example.
nah, Huck would at least win Sussex. looking at the map, I'm, surprised that Obama did as well as he did in South Jersey, but that's probably due to his ads from the Philly media market bleeding over.
Also, though he would have done worse than McCain, I doubt he would have lost NE-AL and Alaska. It seems no Republican could have lost Alaska, with or without Palin. My hypothesis is that it only appeared to be competitive because of the Stevens Effect, whereby voters were ashamed to admit they supported Republicans due to the rampant corruption of the state Republican party. And remember Huckabee's social views are basically identical to Palin's, though he's more articulate in expressing them, and Alaska seems to be more hardcore religious right than I previously thought.
