Sen Clinton knows the best way to a reporters heart is through his (or her) stomach. She passed out candy canes to reporters in New Hampshire, and today she walked the aisles of her campaign plane spooning out heaps of southern peach cobbler from her former home town of Little Rock, Arkansas. The dessert was delicious, but may have had the opposite of its intended effect with one of my colleagues; he says the cobbler gave him horrible heartburn, and only Rolaids’ relief kept him from rolling around in the aisles.

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Charleston, SC-

Last night at the Citadel, the historic southern military school located here in Charleston, GOP presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee positioned himself in defense battle mode, warning the crowd of 400 supporters about the barrage of attacks from his enemy entities, like the Club for Growth, that are questioning his conservative credentials. Huckabee defended his record.

“Folks, I don’t know what you are going to hear, about that I’m not a conservative, but when you cut taxes, and you increase the per capita income, you improved the schools, and you rebuild the roads, and you preserve the national resources, and you streamline government, your government grows at a rate that is half that of the average of all states,” Huckabee said, his voice rising. “Call it anything you want to, but anybody with an I.Q. above broccoli calls that conservative, rock-solid, kind of leadership.”

With the South Carolina primary only a couple days away, every hit, and every maneuver counts, in this tight race.

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