Mike Huckabee apparently didn't much like being kept out of a recent Des Moines Register poll about 2012 would-be GOP candidates for president.

The paper reports that Hogan Gidley, who runs Huckabee's political PAC, got in touch with the paper after the poll was published: “Gidley, who runs HuckPAC, contacted The Des Moines Register on Friday after the newspaper released an Iowa Poll showing the favorability ratings of possible Republican presidential candidates. The paper excluded Huckabee from the poll because the former Arkansas governor had said he probably wouldn't run.”

“I'm in no way saying he is going to run, but he's definitely in the conversation,” Gidley told the paper.