In Christmas-Greeting Style, Huckabee Makes Appeal to Voters

In Christmas-Greeting Style, Huckabee Makes Appeal to Voters

SCORECARD This gauzy Hallmark card of a political advertisement operates on several levels. It seeks to inoculate Mr. Huckabee from the attack advertisements of his rivals, which are questioning his record on immigration and crime, by pointing out that the Christmas season should be about religion and friends and family — a message that could be effective among Iowans, who are widely believed to dislike negative campaigning. By mentioning “Christ” and “God” so prominently, though, Mr. Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister, may be trying to rally the conservative evangelical Christians who are flocking to him while simultaneously drawing a tacit comparison with his closest rival, Mitt Romney, who is a Mormon. While that may work in Iowa, the religiosity of the message may turn off more-secular voters elsewhere, and remind them that Mr. Huckabee has been dismissive of homosexuality and indicated that he does not believe in evolution.

Political advertisements are showing Huckabee as a non caring man and that during the Christmas season he would rather worry about immigration and crime than religion, family, and friends, which is stupid because those are two very important issues and not everyone has a religion and he doesn't need to announce all of his beliefs to everyone and as man of his importance he should be more focused on those issues anyways. They also say that he is dismissive of homosexuality and that he does not believe in evolution, frankly why do we care if he believes in evolution or homosexuality at all.