After a series of lackluster performances by Fred Thompson, who saw his poll numbers peak just as he announced his candidacy, social conservatives began to look for candidates they could love more, and they may have found one in the doe-eyed minister/governor from Arkansas.
Huckabee’s rise is significant; a quick statistical test suggests that there’s less than a 1 in 1,000 chance that his recent trend is due to random variation in polls. He has gained, on average, 0.07 percentage points per day since Aug. 1 (that’s a little over half the rate at which Thompson has lost support since Sept. 12, when he may have reached his political zenith on the national level).
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