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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/mike-huckabee-bill-clinton-hope-arkansas-117577.html?hp=lc3_4 (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/mike-huckabee-bill-clinton-hope-arkansas-117577.html?hp=lc3_4)
The other man from Hope
Bill Clinton used Hope. Now it’s Mike Huckabee’s turn.
By Michael Kruse
5/4/15 5:36 AM EDT
Bill Clinton used Hope. Now it’s Mike Huckabee’s turn.
Huckabee is expected to say he’s running for president again on Tuesday morning in his Arkansas hometown — Hope — not quite 23 years after Clinton said at the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York, first at the end of a 14-minute video titled “A Man from Hope,” then at the end of a 53-minute speech, “I still believe in a place called Hope.”
For Huckabee, it’s a challenge no other 2016 candidate faces: Even though his roots in the town run much deeper than Clinton’s, he must avoid looking in any way like a copycat. But by returning to Hope to make his announcement — something he didn’t do the last time around — friends of his and watchers of politics in the state say he’s adopting a strategy that’s much more head-on.
I’m the real man from Hope.
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