Synergistic Follow-up

Post number dos, to make up for last week's slip.

Combining themes from two of this week's posts: articles from the Guardian and the International Herald Tribune on Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul, respectively.

--> The Guardian has a fascinating primer on Mike Huckabee, introducing him to their British readers. It also reveals just how different media understandings are outside the US. I like how they say that he has "burst into the leading pack of the race for his party's nomination."

I don't think anyone in the US thinks Mike Huckabee has burst into anything. He's asked Stephen Colbert to be his running mate three times, but very few people have heard of him here either.

--> The IHT does a "ain't the Internet amazin'?" story on Ron Paul, featuring a curiously framed photo of the senator, as though he is telling a camera that his captors treat him well, and we should release their political prisoners.

The article's good though. Check it out.


I doubt either of these guys will get the Republican nomination, but I'm intrigued how both stories paint a picture of these dark horse candidates, on the VERGE of springing into the real race, when they're both at least half a lap behind the front runners.

Still, I'd vote for either of these men before anyone else currently in the race.