A new CNN poll shows Huckabee would lose to top Democrats by double digits

A new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll (click here to read the story) indicates that Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee would lose to all three top Democratic candidates by double digits.

"In head-to-head matchups -- the first to include Huckabee -- the former Arkansas governor loses to Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York by 10 percentage points (54 percent to 44 percent), to Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois by 15 points (55 percent to 40 percent) and to former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina by 25 points (60 percent to 35 percent)."

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Administration Dragging Feet on CIA Tapes?

The CIA has destroyed video tapes that captured CIA interrogations of some al Qaeda suspects or plans to destroy the tapes and President Bush Claims that he "has no recollection" of the tapes accoding to a White House spokesperson.



Meanwhile Senator Joe Biden and others want an official investigation.

"This is one case where it really does call for a special counsel," Biden told ABC's "This Week."

"Were there things on those tapes that they did not want to have seen, that did not conform to what the attorney general would allow them to do?" Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia, said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Connecticut, said explanations of the events were "stretching credulity."

Huckabee won't back down

Huckabee, on one of the Sunday talk shows, said he still thinks that AIDS patients should have been isolated from the public:

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Huckabee acknowledged the prevailing scientific view then, and since, that the virus that causes AIDS is not spread through casual contact, but said that was not certain. He cited revelations in 1991 that a dentist had infected a patient in an extraordinary case that highlighted the risk of infection through contact with blood or bodily fluids.

"I still believe this today," he said in a broadcast interview, that "we were acting more out of political correctness" in responding to the AIDS crisis. "I don't run from it, I don't recant it," he said of his position in 1992. Yet he said he would state his view differently in retrospect.

Huckabee, as a Senate candidate that year, told The Associated Press that "we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague" if the federal government was going to deal with the spread of the disease effectively. "It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents," he said then.