The New Yorker has a lengthy profile of former Arkansas governor and current Fox host Mike Huckabee out this week. The piece gives Huckabee mostly praise and contends he is among the leaders of the 2012 GOP presidential field.

But it notes a Rasmussen poll, failing to note Rasmussen's history of right-leaning poll results.

“In some ways, Huckabee seems like a promising candidate for 2012: a squeaky-clean family man and bona-fide Christian who loves to talk. His communication is folksy but fluid; he never seems flummoxed, like George W. Bush, or befuddled, like John McCain, or unprepared, like Sarah Palin,” the piece states. "'If we're running a race against their most articulate guy,' Steve Schmidt, John McCain's former campaign manager, told me, referring to President Obama, 'we should put our most articulate guy. Huckabee's that guy.' Schmidt, who has traded barbs with Palin since the election, said, 'There's no one who really provides a better contrast to Sarah Palin, showing her as an entertainer instead of a serious thinker--and there's not enough oxygen for both of them.'

“Given Huckabee's strength in early polls and the current political environment, in which McCain needs Palin to campaign for him and established incumbents like Governor Charlie Crist, in Florida, are vulnerable to challengers like Marco Rubio--a Tea Party favorite whom Huckabee endorsed--it can be difficult to see why Huckabee feels so marginalized within his party. But he does not have the money to mount a serious bid for office. And he has failed to cultivate many of the people who do”