Will Americans soon be able to bet on presidential candidates, and collect if they win? Lisa Sylvester reports.
The exit of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee from the 2012 presidential race opens a huge void in the Republican field.
In a northeast suburb of this capital city, more than 250 politically active Iowans gathered Saturday to talk about hunters' rights and wildlife conservation.
When then-Sen. Barack Obama gave the speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that thrust him into stardom, he made it clear that it was time to shed the red state-blue state nonsense and embrace the concept that "We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."
CNN contributors discuss former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee's inaccurate comment about President Obama.
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee took a jab at President Barack Obama while speaking before an anti-abortion group Tuesday night.
Mike Huckabee tells attendees at the Voters Value Summit that President Obama is "uncomfortable" leading the U.S.
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee explains why he granted clemency to a man who allegedly went on to kill four cops.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said he was aware of Maurice Clemmons' long and violent criminal history when he commuted his 108-year prison sentence, but he couldn't have foreseen the deadly consequence of his act.
The ambush-style shootings of four police officers in Seattle allegedly by a suspect whose prison sentence had been commuted likely will affect the way states approach clemency, according to professors, criminologists and attorneys.
The suspect in the killing of four Seattle-area police officers, was shot and killed after a 2-day manhunt.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Tuesday said he accepts "full responsibility" for granting clemency in 2000 to a man authorities say gunned down four Lakewood, Washington, police officers Sunday.
The man accused of gunning down four police officers in Washington state has dodged capture. CNN's Patrick Oppmann reports.
Nearly 10 years ago, Maurice Clemmons pledged to make a fresh start.
Conservatives gather to attend the annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.
A day after former Baptist minister and likely presidential rival Mike Huckabee offered a withering critique of Mitt Romney's record, the former Massachusetts governor made his pitch to the same group of religious conservatives.
If the Republican Party wants to get back on track, former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says GOP leaders must first restore voters' confidence in the government.
iReporter Barbara Rademacher shows people lining up by the dozen to get a signed copy of Mike Huckabee's new book.
Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Wednesday he's not trying to settle old scores with his onetime GOP rival Mitt Romney, despite sharply criticizing the former Massachusetts governor in a book out earlier this week.
CNN's Bill Schneider reports on a new book by former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
The man who came in second to McCain in the primaries flashed his trademark humor in boosting his old foe at the convention
Mike Huckabee says Sen. Barack Obama wants to give extremists a 'place setting at the table.'
Some big names entered the Republican race hoping to extend the party's time in the White House, but it was the durability of Sen. John McCain of Arizona that made him the presumptive Republican nominee.
Sen. John McCain, on the last leg of this week's tour of economically struggling regions, was campaigning alongside former rival Mike Huckabee on Friday.
Sen. John McCain travels to New Orleans, where he criticized Pres. Bush's response to Katrina. CNN's Dana Bash reports.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee bowed to "the inevitable" and dropped out of the Republican presidential race Tuesday night after an improbable run for a politician little known beyond his home state a year ago.
Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee explains why he dropped out of the race.
The Dallas Morning News published an editorial Sunday supporting former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, despite saying he has no chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination.
With Mike Huckabee's big win in the Iowa Republican caucus Thursday, more people are asking, "So what's this guy actually stand for?"
Mike Huckabee isn't conceding anything.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes a look at how the presidential candidates are keeping fit.
John McCain's schedule today calls for a flight from Washington to Wisconsin. A town hall meeting in Oshkosh, a second one in La Crosse and a dinner in Milwaukee. Then, the Republican presidential front-runner flies home to Arizona.
Southern Baptist pastor Wiley Drake said Wednesday that he is being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service for his endorsement of GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee in a press release written on church stationery
Republican front-runner John McCain fended off former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in Virginia's presidential primary Tuesday and cruised to wins the other two "Potomac Primaries," but exit polls show the party's conservative core remains cool to the Arizona senator.
CNN's political analysts discuss John McCain's wins in the 'Potomac primaries' and what lies ahead for him.
GOP front-runner John McCain has all but sealed his party's presidential nomination, but instead of focusing on his national campaign, the Arizona senator is still contending with Mike Huckabee.
CNN's Campbell Brown and members of TV's Best Political Team reflect on the day and discuss where the race is headed.
CNN's Best Political Team talks about the close race between presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Republican voters in Louisiana and Kansas told John McCain they weren't ready to support him. Washington state, however, backed the Republican front-runner Saturday over former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, according to state party officials.
Analysis: What Obama's critical wins over Clinton in three states, and McCain's losses to Huckabee in two, say about the state of the parties and fate of the general election
Many voters in Saturday's Republican contests showed they're not yet ready to support Sen. John McCain as their party's nominee while Sen. Barack Obama cut into Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead in the race for Democratic delegates.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee wins Saturday's Kansas Republican caucuses, picking up all 36 delegates at stake.
Mike Huckabee says he was 'taken aback' by Dr. James Dobson's endorsement, and adresses other issues with the press.
Calling himself an "authentic" conservative, Mike Huckabee appealed Thursday for supporters of Mitt Romney to follow him instead of GOP front-runner Sen. John McCain now that Romney is out of the race.
McCain has strengthened his claim to the GOP nomination. But attacks from conservatives may hurt him in November
Huckabee's southern surge means the two-man race Romney hoped for still hasn't materialized. That leaves the GOP's big spender with dwindling options
Arizona Sen. John McCain piled up wins in the Republican race for the White House Tuesday -- with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee also surging to victories throughout the South just days after ignoring calls to drop out of the race.
A state-by-state look at the results, as voters across the country make their presidential choices on Super Tuesday
Fred Thompson reflects on his recent debate performance, rival Mike Huckabee and his campaigning style.
Front-running presidential candidates in both parties sniped at each other Saturday night as they debated three days before Tuesday's first primary.
Sen. Hillary Clinton talks about her likability. Watch the replays of the debates on CNN tonight at 7 PM ET.
Politician, bass player and preacher, Mike Huckabee tells CNN's the Campaign Trail about his faith and his future.
Mike Huckabee's bare-bones Iowa campaign may have been short on cash and full-time staff, but it was long on grassroots innovation -- and supported on the ground by an impressive array of evangelical networks.
Republican caucus-goers in Des Moines, Iowa express support for their candidates.
Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee was the big winner in Iowa's GOP caucuses Thursday thanks to big support from two groups of voters: Women and evangelical Christians.
In the end, change mattered more than experience for Iowa's Democratic caucus-goers, and church, faith and values were priorities for Republicans.
Watch Mike Huckabee's full speech as he claims victory in Iowa.
Viewpoint: The GOP candidate's positive image on the stump, says Joe Klein, is at odds with his negative media campaign
Huckabee says he plans to pull negative ad against Romney.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacks Sen. John McCain's immigration record.
Two negative ads recently launched by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has spent more on advertising than any other candidate, either misrepresent his rival's records or include distortions, according to a CNN analysis of the commercials.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney as running a "desperate and dishonest" campaign and predicted the former Massachusetts governor won't be the Republican nominee.
Mike Huckabee returns fire against Mitt Romney as the GOP frontrunners do battle in Iowa. CNN's Mary Snow reports.
His recent tragedy of errors shows that the first-tier candidate is struggling with a second-tier operation
A senior aide to Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee admitted Friday that the former Arkansas governor had "no foreign policy credentials" after his comments reacting to the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto raised questions.
Huckabee ties the turmoil in Pakistan to the issue of illegal immigration in the U.S. CNN's Dana Bash reports
In a campaign ad airing in Iowa, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney claims rival Mike Huckabee was soft on crime.
In a new TV ad airing in Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stepped up his attacks on rival Mike Huckabee, this time accusing the former Arkansas governor of being soft on crime.
Yikes! Did Oprah put Obama through the ringer like this?
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has shot to the top of a new poll in South Carolina, leading Republican presidential candidates in the key Southern state.
Mike Huckabee is hitting back hard at a new attack ad from Mitt Romney. CNN's Dana Bash reports.
Republican Mike Huckabee Wednesday personally apologized to rival Mitt Romney for comments he made in an upcoming New York Times Magazine article that appear to disparage the Mormon faith.
Mike Huckabee says he has apologized to Mitt Romney for his comment on Mormonism in a New York Times magazine article.
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is attacking Mike Huckabee on his record of illegal immigration in a new TV ad, a move the latter labeled as "desperate."
In a television ad, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacks Mike Huckabee's record on illegal immigration.
Mike Huckabee's dramatic jump in the polls is going nationwide. The former Arkansas governor is in a virtual tie with Republican presidential front-runner Rudy Giuliani in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll out Monday.
While presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is surging in new polls of GOP candidates, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday shows he would lose to all three leading Democratic candidates by double digits in hypothetical contests.
CNN's Dana Bash reports on Mike Huckabee's position on AIDS and homosexuality then and now.
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee refused to retract a statement he made in 1992 calling for the isolation of AIDS patients.
Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could "pose a dangerous public health risk."
Huckabee talks about the parole of a rapist and his knowledge of the new NIE report.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said it was "heartbreaking" that the deaths of women killed by a convicted rapist who was released from prison after Huckabee supported his parole had become politicized.
The case of a convicted rapist paroled in 1999 has come back to haunt Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, with the mother of a woman the convict later murdered pledging to campaign against the former Arkansas governor.
CNN's Anderson Cooper travels New Hampshire with Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
Mike Huckabee boasts about running an above-the-mud campaign that does not smear his GOP rivals, but a group founded by some of his supporters appears to be doing just that.
Surging in polls in Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee finds himself increasingly under attack from rivals over his record as governor of Arkansas, particularly on taxes and immigration.
CNN's Jeanne Moos looks at whether the funny guy with the funny name will end up laughing all the way to the White House.
The GOP underdog is trying to stay positive as the other candidates go after each other. But he knows how to sting like a Huckabee
No, it's not Iraq. Candidates in both parties are surprised by the public's anger over illegal immigrants
The Cathedral of the Pines is a rural New Hampshire jewel, a perfect spot for prayer or reflection, tucked into the rolling hills.
GOP hopeful Mitt Romney is in the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer to respond to fire coming from his opponents.
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney blasted a rising challenger in the Iowa caucuses Monday, painting former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as a tax-raising, illegal immigrant-coddling liberal and defending his own commitment to conservative causes.
As the Senate starts a probe of several "prosperity gospel" preachers, the presidential candidate stands by the one with the most question marks
The conservative's strong showing at the Values Voters summit reveals a split between leaders and the rank and file
During the first GOP presidential debate last month in California, three Republican candidates raised eyebrows by indicating they did not subscribe to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Four years ago, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee weighed around 300 pounds.



