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Mike Huckabee

2007-03-11T02:39:45Z

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Mike Huckabee is a [[Baptist]] minister and candidate for the 2008 presidential election. He believes in [[Creationism]] and was the governor of [[Arkansas]].

As Governor of Arkansas, he was a strong supporter of raising taxes. At the end of his ten years in office, he was able to enact a 37% increase in sales taxes, a 16% increase in taxes on motor fuels, and a 103% increase in taxes on the sale of tobacco products.

He has criticized President [[George W. Bush]]'s tax cuts as being too oriented towards the wealthy, despite objective evidence showing that they shifted the tax burden to the wealthy<ref>http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2007/01/a_report_on_mike_huckabees_fis.php</ref>. Although, conversely, the Congressional Budget Office released a [http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/57xx/doc5746/08-13-EffectiveFedTaxRates.pdf report] in 2004, that claimed the opposite:

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Fully one-third of President Bush's tax cuts in the last three years have gone to people with the top 1 percent of income, who have earned an average of $1.2 million annually.<ref>http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/57xx/doc5746/08-13-EffectiveFedTaxRates.pdf</ref>
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Huckabee lost 110 pounds while governor of Arkansas and documented his weight loss and set out a 12-step plan for weight loss in his book ''Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork.'' <ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7752179/site/newsweek/</ref> He has also made childhood obesity a major platform issue.

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Divided government

2007-03-10T05:27:25Z

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In American politics a '''Divided government''' is one in which the [[presidency]] and the [[Congress]] are controlled by different [[parties]]. For example, in the second half of the [[William J. Clinton | Clinton]] administration, 1995-2000, the presidency was controlled by the [[Democrat]]s, while the Congress was [[Republican]] controlled. Many commentators suggest that a divided government may be the best state for the United States, since each party then serves as a watchdog on the other.
Statistics show that the economy grows at a higher rate during divided government than with either party in control of both branches of government. This is sometimes attributed to the [[gridlock]] effect, in which each party blocks the other party's spending. In the Clinton administration, for example, the years of undivided Democrat control resulted in budget deficits, while the years of divided government resulted in a budget surplus, the first significant surplus in the post-World-War-II era. Undivided Republican control (2002-2006) under the leadership of George W. Bush, also resulted in budget deficits.

Mitt Romney

2007-03-10T04:53:51Z

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'''Willard Mitt Romney''' (born 1947, goes by Mitt), served as the governor of [[Massachusetts]] from 2002 to 2006 and is a Republican candidate in the 2008 presidential election. If elected, he will become the first Mormon president. Currently, Romney is gaining popularity because his stable marriage attracts conservative audiences who are unhappy with [[John McCain]], [[Rudy Giulliani]], and [[Newt Gingrich]]'s many divorces. The irony that the Mormon has been married the least times of all the candidates was pointed out by Romney's wife, Ann, who said the difference between her husband and the other candidates is that "he's had only one wife."<ref>[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070224/ap_on_el_pr/romney_polygamy]</ref>

Romney's critics attack his inconsistent track record on issues such as abortion and gay marriage. Although Romney now identifies himself as pro-life and anti-same sex marriage, he claimed to be pro choice and supported same-sex rights as late as 2002. These swaps coupled with his [[Mormon]] affiliation puts him at odds with much of the Evangelical right, but a PollingReport.com chart from March 3, 2007 indicates that Mitt was still polling at approximately 7% within the GOP primary forecasts.

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