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Gov. Huckabee wins re-election in Arkansas
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Mike Huckabee
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(AllPolitics, November 3) -- Mike Huckabee, the Republican governor of Clinton's home state of Arkansas, won re-election to the job he got when Clinton's successor in that position, Jim Guy Tucker, was forced to resign after being convicted of financial irregularities in a case related to the Whitewater controversy.
Voters gave Huckabee the overwhelming victory he wanted over Democrat Bill
Bristow and Reform Party candidate Keith Carle to erase his unelected governor status and cement his position as Arkansas' unquestioned leader.
A Baptist minister, Huckabee is a skilled politician who knows when to sound bipartisan. He carried every major demographic group. But of all the people who voted for him, 30 percent crossed the aisle and voted for Democratic Senate candidate Blanche Lambert Lincoln.
Folks weren't necessarily voting with their pocketbooks. Huckabee lost the vote of those whose finances have improved in the past two years, but won handily among those whose finances were the same or worse.
A note on a certain former governor: President Clinton's numbers aren't
nearly as strong as his wife's. Sixty-one percent of the voters in this race have a favorable opinion of Hillary Clinton. Compare that with 52 percent who approve of the president's job and 37 percent who have a favorable opinion of the president as a person.~
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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