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Is Huckabee's success there a harbinger of things to come? Is he starting to gain some traction?
We'll see. Everyone says he does great when he speaks; everyone says he does great in the debates. But so far that hasn't translated either into fund-raising success or into a surge in the polls. He's moved up, and I would think he's a natural inheritor of what support [Kansas Sen. Sam] Brownback had. But I just looked at a Politico.com poll that showed that Thompson was the favorite of churchgoing evangelicals, and Giuliani was second. So, you know, it's a crazy season.

What did you think of Giuliani's speech? Was he able to, as you put it, "mitigate" any of the negative perceptions about him among evangelicals?
In that speech, no. In the recent debate I think he helped himself a lot—[particularly] when he made the statement that if some sort of critical mass of four, five or six states [allow] same-sex marriage, he would support a constitutional amendment [to ban it]. He said that had always been his position. It may have been, but he certainly kept it a well-guarded secret. That will help him among social conservatives.

Did anything jump out at you and surprise you about the summit?
If the days of the so-called religious right are done, why did all the Republican candidates show up? It doesn't look dead to me.

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