Bare-Bones Huckabee Creeps Up on Free-Spending Romney in Iowa, While Humming 'O Tannenbaum'

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By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the December 17, 2007 edition of The Nation.

November 29, 2007

Mike Huckabee, Mike Huckabee,
Your numbers just keep soaring.
Mike Huckabee, Mike Huckabee,
It's Romney you are goring,
Though Mitt is rich and Mitt is slick.
He's wondering, "Who is this hick?"
Mike Huckabee, Mitt fails to see
That rich and slick is boring.

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About Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin is The Nation's "deadline poet." He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1963 and has written the syndicated weekly column "Uncivil Liberties" since 1986. He has authored many, many books, including Tepper's Not Going Out and Deadline Poet: My Life as a Doggerelist. more...
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