The Guardian Corrects Itself on Huckabee

On Monday the UK's The Guardian ran a feature on Sarah Palin and Iowa in 2012 — including a short dismissal of Huckabee, the 2008 caucus winner:

A Des Moines Register poll in June gave Romney a 62% favourability rating among Republicans, Palin 58% and Gingrich 56%. Others trailed well behind. Mike Huckabee, who won in 2008, has ruled himself out of the race.

After an outcry by Huckabee supporters (and observant members of the public), The Guardian corrected itself, running both a correction and amending the online article:

A story from Iowa about visits to the midwest state by potential Republican presidential candidates said that Mike Huckabee – who ran for the party's presidential nomination in 2008 – had ruled himself out of contention for the 2012 race. What he has said is that he will not decide whether to seek the nomination until after the 2010 midterm elections.

And the amended article reads:

A Des Moines Register poll in June gave Romney a 62% favourability rating among Republicans, Palin 58% and Gingrich 56%. Others trailed well behind. Asked why the poll omitted Mike Huckabee, who won in 2008, the Register said that Huckabee had ruled himself out of the race. However, his stance seems to be that he will not make a decision or announcement about 2012 until the 2010 election is over.

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