Poll: Huckabee Is Now The GOP's Top Choice For 2016 After Libido Remark

[Triana]

Uncle Sugar has apparently provided Mike Huckabee with a polling bounce.

The latest survey from Democratic PPP released Wednesday showed the former Arkansas governor surging among Republican voters nationwide in the wake of his head-scratching comment about the female libido.

According to the poll, 16 percent of GOP primary voters said they would prefer to see Huckabee as the party's presidential nominee in 2016, making him the top Republican in the field. Only a month ago, PPP showed Huckabee polling at 11 percent and trailing both New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) among GOP voters.

PPP's latest survey was conducted Jan. 23-26. Huckabee made his instantly-infamous remark during a speech at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting on Jan. 23.

"If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of government then so be it! Let us take that discussion all across America because women are far more than the Democrats have played them to be," he said at the meeting.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Well, if we have to have a republican president

I prefer the dumbest one. Maybe he can take Gohmert as VP. In Ted Cruz you get brains and evil combined. Sort of like Professor Moriarty.

[Tippy]

2. Not at all suprised Republicans think a lot alike they are all fools

[MrScorpio]

3. At least for this week

Teapublicans are a fickle lot.

[arcane1]

4. No kidding, wasn't it Rand Paul less than a week ago?

[Gothmog]

5. Huckabee is not going to run

Huckabee is not going to run because he likes his Fox News pay check too much

[Douglas Carpenter]

6. now we have gotten back to the level of the 2012 Republican primary debates - a grand series of "Who

can sound the craziest' competitions

[The Magistrate]

9. Exactly, Sir

Their primary electorate is our secret weapon....

[HappyMe]

7. Meh, I don't think he will run.

He's the nutbar flavor of the week. Next week, it will be somebody else.

[Aristus]

8. Nobody outside of Trailerville and East Cornhole will vote for Huckabilly.

His base of support is a mile wide and an inch deep.