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  The Huckabee Debate

  Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:46 PM | By Christopher Beam

  The Republican presidential debates are starting to look like Lost, in which each character gets his own episode. First there was the Thompson debate, with all eyes on Fred. Then came the Hillary debate, in which her name was invoked more than 40 times.

  So you'd think, given the recent emergence of Mike Huckabee as a front-runner in Iowa and Ron Paul as a major fund-raiser, that those two candidates might dominate tonight's discussion. But if that’s the case, CNN’s podium lineup (exclusive!) doesn’t reflect it:

  Tancredo
  Huckabee
  Romney
  Giuliani
  Thompson
  McCain
  Paul
  Hunter

  Shouldn't Huckabee, the guy statistically tied for first in Iowa, get a better position than McCain, the guy polling third in New Hampshire and invisible in Iowa? Maybe it would just be too sad a statement to take McCain out of the Middle Four.

  Filed under: Mike Huckabee, debate

About Christopher Beam

• Christopher Beam is a Slate political reporter.

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