He's still not sure he wants to run for president, but a new poll in eleven southern states shows Mike Huckabee leading any other candidate by a huge margin.
Twenty-two percent of probable Republican voters in the poll picked the former Arkansas governor. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich came in second, with 13 percent.
"It's no secret that Governor Huckabee is seriously considering a run for president in 2012 - and various poll results like this one are, quite frankly, becoming hard for the governor and his political team to ignore," said Hogan Gidley, the executive director of Huckabee's Political Action Committee and the former head of the South Carolina Republican Party.
The poll covered likely voters in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Huckabee's popularity can't be chalked up to southern loyalty -- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour gets only 1 percent of the vote. A more important factor is name recognition: Huckabee is better known all over the country than many other contenders.........SNIP.........
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