"Deflating?"

Even though I've pasted the disclaimer across my laptop's monitor: "Any reading of Hugh's pages must be taken with nearly a full bag of salt," I'm still curiouser and curiouser as to how he arrives at conclusions like:

The deflation of the Huckabee campaign frees up voters to go to either Romney, Thompson or McCain though any evangelical leaving Huckabee is unlikely to look past Senator McCain's opposition to a federal Marriage Amendment or the Gang of 14. Romney and Thompson are both pushing conservative agendas, but the momentum is with the former governor as the home stretch opens in Iowa.

Certainly Hugh's pronouncement of Huck's demise following the New York Times issue that never was - has had ZERO impact on his numbers. But it seems to me that every single day Hugh is predicting more and more things - that don't come true.

With ALL the hits that Hugh has levied at Huck in the last half of the last month alone - did it move the needle even a tiny fraction?

Not nationally according to Rasmussen, who is the MOST TRUSTWORTHY pollster out there, yesterday he showed Huck's support ticking UP. And not according to the multiple pollsters that are working Iowa - one of which has Huck at 36%, and an average of all the polls - including Rasmussen's most recent has Huck up by an AVERAGE of 3%.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I do not work for the Huckabee campaign, I have no shot of being picked as Press Secretary for any of the candidates, and was not commissioned to write any of the candidate's books. And while I enjoy a fine relationship with all of the campaigns (with perhaps the exception of Ron Paul), I am not endorsing ANY of them in the GOP primary race 2008.