{"id":620,"date":"2010-06-24T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fedewaconsulting.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2010-06-24T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:30:01","slug":"620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fedewaconsulting.com\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was Huckabee\u2019s ease in front of a camera that enabled him to stay in the 2008 Presidential campaign as long as he did. \u201cIn March of \u201907, he said to me, \u2018This campaign is going to be over before it starts,\u2019 because he was dismally<\/em> not raising money,\u201d [Kirsten] Fedewa said. \u201cHe was staying at Motel 8s.\u201d At the end of 2007, Huckabee had raised less than nine million dollars, compared with Mitt Romney\u2019s fifty-four million\u2014which he augmented with thirty-five million of his own money\u2014and Hillary Clinton\u2019s hundred and seven million.<\/p>\n

To compensate, Huckabee gave nearly twenty television interviews every morning for four months, from the run-up to the Iowa caucuses until he left the race. \u201cWe estimate that was two hundred million dollars in free media,\u201d Fedewa said. \u201cThe media was his base.\u201d The strategy was to make Huckabee available to everyone, not just CNN and the 700 Club but \u201cThe Colbert Report\u201d and Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2014\u201cthe shows that your opponents will be too scared to go on,\u201d as Bob Wickers, one of Huckabee\u2019s campaign consultants, put it. Huckabee is not uncomfortable around Democrats or comedians; he is as happy talking to Jon Stewart about abortion as he is interviewing Gayle Haggard about her marriage, as he did on a recent episode of his own show. And liberals tend to like him in return. Even if you find his politics repugnant, you can still find yourself drawn in by his relentless niceness. It doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019d vote for him, but it might mean you\u2019d have him on your show.<\/p>\n

–The New Yorker Magazine, June 21, 2010<\/p>\n

Read more: The New Yorker Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was Huckabee\u2019s ease in front of a camera that enabled him to stay in the 2008 Presidential campaign as long as he did. \u201cIn March of \u201907, he said to me, \u2018This campaign is going to be over before it starts,\u2019 because he was dismally not raising money,\u201d [Kirsten] Fedewa said. \u201cHe was staying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homepage-quotes","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedewaconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedewaconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedewaconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedewaconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedewaconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fedewaconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/fedewaconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedewaconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedewaconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedewaconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}