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Article: Huckabee's prayers answered; scores win
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- January 4, 2008
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By Jason George
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Huck-a-who?
Such was the question on lips last January when Mike Huckabee announced his long-shot presidential bid. As a former governor of Arkansas with little national exposure, Huckabee was at the time best known -- if known much at all -- for losing 110 pounds while in office, hardly an obvious White House credential.
No longer though is Mike Huckabee known for losing, but winning -- as he stands this day as the only Republican candidate with a victory under his tightened belt, besting all the supposed frontrunners in Thursday night's Iowa caucuses.
With little money and scant staff, Huckabee managed what months ago seemed impossible to almost ...