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January 14, 2008BELTWAY BLOGROLL
A Default Right-Wing Vote For Huckabee
We're only two primaries into the presidential-nominating process and bloggers already are starting to reluctantly pick their candidates.
Kingpin Kos confessed this week that Christopher Dodd was his top choice, but he has decided to vote for Barack Obama in California's Democratic primary just to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House again. Today, John Hawkins of Right Wing News cast a similar vote of no confidence in multiple Republican candidates.
Fred Thompson is Hawkins' preferred candidate. But he said Mike Huckabee is his default pick as the candidate with better conservative credentials than Rudy Giuliani or John McCain and a better chance of electability in the fall than Mitt Romney.
It's too early to know whether such blog endorsments will carry any more weight than tired newspaper endorsements, but it's worth keeping track to try and make sense of it later. if you're a blogger and you've publicly picked a candidate, shoot an e-mail to me at dglover@nationaljournal.com and I'll make note of it.
UPDATE: Jason Pye e-mailed last week to say he cast an absentee vote for Ron Paul in Georgia. "Had I known about the newsletter scandal at the time, I would have voted for Fred Thompson. I wish I could do that one over."
John Hawkins of Right Wing News, meanwhile, did a "temperature check" of conservative bloggers' current views about the candidates and how they match up against each other as the field narrows.
Posted by Danny | 10:02 AM
