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Huckabee: 50-50 Chance On Running For President In 2016

Amid the Duck Dynasty controversy, the failed ObamaCare rollout, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says there is a decent chance he will run for president in 2016.

“I would say maybe at this point, it is 50/50. But I don’t know. I don’t know that I would put a percentage on it,” he told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”

Huckabee was responding to Wallace who pointed out the recent interviews with the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Huckabee added, “And, by the way, the only reason I talked to those news entities is because they asked me. You know, I didn’t go and solicit them and say, hey, I’d love to have an interview with you and lets But as people approached me and they’ve asked me about it, I had friends who said let’s do a poll, let’s just see if you’re in the mix.”

According to several pollsters, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie leads among early likely 2016 presidential nominations, with few polling Gov. Huckabee, who now hosts “Huckabee” on the Fox News Channel. Still, surveys conducted this early are not very good future indicators.

In 2008, both Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton were far ahead of their challengers in the Republican and Democrat presidential nomination polls, which neither went on to receive. In fact, Mike Huckabee blindsided many when he went on to win the first in the nation caucus primary, Iowa.

While the contest is still far ahead in the future, prospective candidates will have to decide sometime this year in order to put ground organization in place and race money. One thing is certain: Pollsters will have to start including Mike Huckabee in the surveys for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

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Richard D. Baris

Rich, the People's Pundit, is the Data Journalism Editor at PPD and Director of the PPD Election Projection Model. He is also the Director of Big Data Poll, and author of "Our Virtuous Republic: The Forgotten Clause in the American Social Contract."

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