William Kristol has an article in the NYT in which he suggests that during a Huckabee-Obama contest a third-party run by Bloomberg would hurt Obama.
We're not sure where he gets his figures from, but that doesn't sound likely to us. In our opinion, Obama's supporters actually like the man, while most of Huckabee's supporters in a national race would be voting for the party instead of the man.
Some Democrats are licking their chops at the prospect of a Huckabee nomination. They shouldn’t be. For one thing, Michael Bloomberg would be tempted to run in the event of an Obama-Huckabee race — and he would most likely take votes primarily from Obama. But whatever Bloomberg does, the fact is that the Republican establishment spent 2007 underestimating Mike Huckabee. If Huckabee does win the nomination, it would be amusing if Democrats made the same mistake in 2008.
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