Iowa Debate Means Iowa Race Remains Free For All

Published: December 13, 2007, 9:38 am

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Debates ideally help move voters to make up their minds but the verdict on the Iowa GOP debate is: the race there remains a free for all with Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee continuing to come “out of nowhere” — and seemingly having The Big Mo. Centrist columnist Walter Shapiro, writing in Salon notes: Little more than three weeks before the caucuses even a nothing-burger of a debate becomes eventful. Nothing occurred to dethrone the up-from-nowhere Iowa front-runner Mike Huckabee, who is suddenly appearing on more magazine covers (Newsweek, this coming Sunday’s New York Times Magazine) than Nicole Kidman. As veteran Republican consultant Charlie Black, now working for John McCain, put it after the debate, “The biggest thing that happened is that nobody laid a glove on Huckabee.” Even the former Baptist preacher and Arkansas governor seemed surprised by the mild-in-the-streets debate, saying on CNN, “I was kind of anticipating there would be

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