They like Mike

Politico.com reported Going into Sunday's Republican presidential debate, most of the Iowans noshing on English muffins in the sun room of the neon-bedecked Drake Diner had never heard of Mike Huckabee, or knew very little about the ex-preacher and former governor of Arkansas. But by the debate’s end, they knew a lot more—and liked what they saw.

I suspect what they liked is that he was a governor, and hence had experience dealing with a legislature, and he did not have some of the history that Romney had, since he was a governor of what may be the most Liberal state. Massachusetts.