"Huck and Chuck" to storm NH

    Chuck Norris, star of "Sidekicks" and numerous other action films, will be a sidekick for Mike Huckabee on Dec. 16, a campaign event getting to be known as "Huck and Chuck." The celebrity visit comes as Huckabee is surging in polls, including a Newsweek survey yesterday that gave him a 2-1 lead over Mitt Romney in the first-caucus state Huckabee surges in Iowa. The former Arkansas governor's rebound there is reflected in his second place in a new national poll. New Hampshire supporters hope for a similar bounce here, as my UnionLeader.com story recounts today in Huckabee Making His Mark. Chuck Norris will not draw as many voters as Oprah Winfrey, but the stop in Londonderry that Sunday stands to be a smash hit for the Republican presidential hopeful. For "Huck and Chuck" it's lock-and-load time.

Comments

[Jim Splaine]

In politics, it's so sad that "endorsements" can influence voters, or that money can buy votes, or that thirty second flashy splashy marshmallow fluff ads can project a winning image rather than communicate an important message, or that a five word slogan can get someone elected.

Journalists have to do the job that we should be doing in our schools: get people to critically think. But in a world where a basketball player can sell millions of pair of Nikes, or a heart surgeon can sell millions of dollars worth of a drug, even the best journalist might not meet the challenge of getting the voter to think.

It's good, though, that we have some like you who try.

[Dan]

Will keep slugging away, thanks. "Five word slogans?" Like, "Change you can believe in?" Change, experience, leadership, vision, hope. So much rhetoric, so little time 'til the Primary.