Re: Huck

From:tom@zzranch.com To: pbegala@hatcreekent.com, benjamin@hildebrandtewes.com, Susan.McCue@one.org, tom@zzranch.com, tara.mcguinness@gmail.com CC: sgreenberg@gqrr.com, ic2008@gqrr.com, john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2008-01-10 13:31 Subject: Re: Huck

This sounds like the plan to operationalize, Ben. I saw the poll this AM on MSNBC during a Huckabee segment. I'm not sure whose it was--I agree we have different data but it sounds like we have space to dig on Huck. ----- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:23:24 Any re-focusing on Huck should be on extremism. If I read the GQR memo right, that's what moves folks. We need to know more about what he said and did as a pastor, and perhaps more likely, what he did as the head of the Southern Baptists in Arkansas. Did they pass nutty resolutiions on issues? Did they oppose the teaching of, say, gravity and photosynthesis as well as evolution? Let's do a deep dive on "Teaching Kids to Kill", the book he wrote after a school shooting in AR. And he also wrote a book about fatherhood, or his father...some Daddy book. I suspect we have just begun to scratch the surface of his bat-shit crazy positions. ----- From: Benjamin Jones <benjamin@hildebrandtewes.com> To: 'Susan McCue' <Susan.McCue@one.org>; tom@zzranch.com <tom@zzranch.com>; tara.mcguinness@gmail.com <tara.mcguinness@gmail.com>; Begala, Paul Cc: sgreenberg@gqrr.com <sgreenberg@gqrr.com>; ic2008@gqrr.com <ic2008@gqrr.com>; john.podesta@gmail.com <john.podesta@gmail.com> Sent: Thu Jan 10 10:17:16 2008 Subject: RE: Huck Research wise… we are at a point with all of the candidates that I don’t think we have to “divert” as much as “re-focus” if that makes sense. Now that the documents are in a better, more thorough place across the board we can shift some energy to Huck (especially with all the Romney stuff we have compiled in the last 7 days). I will layer Huck back into our research rotation (sounds kind of official) after we are locked down for the McCain poll on Sunday. From: Susan McCue [mailto:Susan.McCue@one.org <mailto:Susan.McCue@one.org> ] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:07 AM To: tom@zzranch.com; tara.mcguinness@gmail.com; benjamin@hildebrandtewes.com; pbegala@hatcreekent.com; Susan McCue Cc: sgreenberg@gqrr.com; ic2008@gqrr.com; john.podesta@gmail.com Subject: Re: Huck Had similar thought but wasn't sure if clouded by wishful thinking. ----- From: Tom Matzzie <tom@zzranch.com> To: Tara McGuinness <tara.mcguinness@gmail.com>; Benjamin Jones <benjamin@hildebrandtewes.com>; Paul Begala <pbegala@hatcreekent.com>; Susan McCue Cc: Stan Greenberg <sgreenberg@gqrr.com>; ic2008 <ic2008@gqrr.com>; john.podesta@gmail.com <john.podesta@gmail.com> Sent: Thu Jan 10 09:17:30 2008 Subject: Huck I saw a Michigan poll with Huckabee up this morning. I want to divert some of our research resources from Romney back to Huckabee. Big focus still on McCain. Let me know if you've got feedback. Thanks