Republican and Conservative political analysis and commentary

David Sirota explores the economic populism of Mike Huckabee - and says its why the Huckabee campaign has positive momentum.

[Huckabee] has an extraordinarily different message than any of the other Republican presidential contenders - a populist economic message that may be shunned by conservative operatives and K Street lobbyists in Washington, but likely has an appeal among rank-and-file working-class Republican voters. Though Beltway reporters are too insulated in their cliched views of politics to see how this economic populist appeal may be fueling Huckabee’s candidacy, it is a phenomenon Democrats should be well aware of if they want to win the White House in 2008.

Huckabee can go a long way on a message of Main Street populism.