@Pericles what would the likely result be if Huckabee won the R nomination in 2008?
My feeling is that McCain was the strongest GOP candidate for 2008, and anyone else would have lost to Obama by more. 2008 was just a very anti-GOP year. And Huckabee isn't a strong GE candidate with good appeal to swing voters, from 2008 the limited(and this kind of polling is typically unreliable) polling had Obama crushing Hucakbee in a landslide(https://www.realclearpolitics.com/e...s/general_election_huckabee_vs_obama-516.html)