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Fat chance.(Up Front)(Mike Huckabee)(Brief article)

American Prospect, The,  April, 2007  by Franke-Ruta, Garance

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MIKE HUCKABEE, THE GENIAL FORMER GOVERNOR of Arkansas, is enjoying an improbable moment as a favorite dark-horse GOP presidential candidate among liberals. (He wants to raise taxes to help the poor! He supports arts education in the schools!) But he faces a few nettlesome hurdles en route to winning the actual GOP nod: his utter lack of funding, party support, name recognition, and voter enthusiasm.

But all this pales before another weighty issue: the fraught subject of personal poundage. Huckabee tipped the scales at more than 280 pounds just a few years ago; since which, he's ...

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