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# Huckabee Wins Social Cons
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/huckabee-wins-social-cons/
- Published: 2007-10-20T19:45:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-20T21:22:13.000Z
- Description: Huckabee Wins Social Cons
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Lee Anderson, Politics

Okay, so the title is a little over the top. But there is good news for the Huckabee campaign today from the Washington Briefing.

While [Huckabee lost the straw poll](https://mereorthodoxy.com/?p=1164), he *won the on-site voting 5/1\.* There were 488 people who voted for Huckabee at the conference (as opposed to online) while 99 voted for Romney.

That isn't a perfect measure of the people who attended the conference, as some people who attended the conference voted online. But it is a clear indication that for those who weren't previously on board the Romney campaign, Huckabee is their guy.

Which narrative is going to take hold--that Romney won the straw poll (by 30 votes) or that Huckabee beat him 5/1 among those at the event itself (this includes, I assume, the various people that Romney brought in specifically to support him on the site).