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good to have you with us tonight, folks, thanks for watching. it is official the reverend mike huckabee is going to do it again. he wants to be president of the united states. huckabee kicked off the campaign from his hometown of hope arkansas, earlier today. the former baptist preacher is again running as a social conservative. it s the same old act. he started his speech by recalling his childhood in hope. i learned about america. in miss mary s kindergarten as well as at brookwood elementary school, i learned the pledge of allegiance, the lord s prayer and the preamble to the constitution. we prayed at the start of each day and we prayed again before lunch. and i learned that this exceptional country could only be explained by the providence of almighty god. well huckabee wasted no time going right at the president of the united states, attacking president obama. it was eight years ago that a young untested inexperienced, and virtually unknown freshman senator made g
and we re going to begin this morning with on the campaign trail, with the race for the white house taking center stage in the battleground state of iowa. yesterday it appears mitt romney s vice presidential pick may be growing on some americans. according to a new abc news/ washington post poll, 38% favor congressman paul ryan as romney s running mate, up from 23% last week. still, 33% viewed ryan unfavorably. nbc s steve handelsman has more. reporter: his opponent got the weekend buzz by picking a running mate. but in drought-stricken iowa, president obama created his own buzz as only an incumbent can, ordering the federal government to buy $150 million worth of meat and fish from hard-hit farmers. we ve got a lot of freezers. reporter: the president said the farm bill, frozen on capitol hill, would help more and singled out mitt romney s running mate for helping block it. so if you happen to see congressman ryan, tell him how important the farm bill is for iowa an
americans. according to a new abc news/ washington post poll, 38% favor congressman paul ryan as mitt romney s running mate. that s up from 23% last week. 33% viewed ryan unfavorably. nbc s steve handelsman has more. reporter: his opponent got the weekend buzz by picking a running mate, but in drought-stricken iowa, president obama created his own buzz as only an incumbent can, ordering the federal government to buy $150 million worth of meat and fish from hard-hit farmers. we ve got a lot of freezers. reporter: the president said the farm bill frozen on capitol hill would help more and singled out mitt romney s running mate for helping block it. so if you happen to see congressman ryan, tell him how important this farm bill is to iowa and our rural communities. reporter: iowans are seeing ryan. he, too, went to that swing state. a chaotic event. his speech repeatedly disrupted. stop the war on the common good! we don t want a welfare state. we don t want a debt
washington post poll it s up from 23% last week. 33% viewed ryan unfavorably. nbc s steve handelsman has more. reporter: his opponent got the weekend busby picking a running mate, but in drought-stricken iowa, president obama created his own buzz as only an incumbent condition. we ve got a lot of freezers. reporter: the president said the farm bill frozen on chile and would help more and singled out mitt romney s running mate to help block it. so if you happen to see congressman ryan tell him how important this farm bill is to iowa and its farming communities. reporter: he, too, went to that swing state. a chaotic event. his speech repeatedly disrupted. we don t want a welfare state. we don t want a debt crisis. we don t want to prolong this recession. reporter: romney s pick put him in trouble in the state of florida, a state full of people using medicare that ryan wants to stink but in st. augustine romney charged obama did that. it was to cut it by $700 b