Values Voter Summit 2014 ... >
Sept. 26, 2014 - Former Gov. Mike Huckabee made a powerful case for those in the audience to register people and help them get to the polls:

"There are over 80 million self-identified evangelicals in America.  Now, that’s just the people who call themselves evangelicals.  This does not include many people who would be identified as either mainline Protestant, Catholic, many other faiths who really share our basic values.  So we’re now talking about probably over 100 million people.
 
"But I just want to focus for a moment on those who self-identify as evangelicals.  Of those 80 million plus, only 40 million of them are even registered to vote.  Even registered.  Out of the 40 million that are registered to vote, only 20 million will vote during a presidential election.  And of the 20 million that will vote during a presidential election, only 10 million of them will vote during an off-year election like this one.  And of those who will vote in an off-year election, an even smaller fraction will vote in the primary that gives the candidates that we select from in those off-year elections. 
 
"I want to ask you something.  What would happen if, instead of half of those voters being registered, 75 percent of them were?  And what would happen if, instead of half of them voting, 75 percent of them voted?  If 10 more evangelicals had voted in the last presidential election, we would have a different president than the one we have right now."

And Huckabee said:

"As concerned as I am about who’s answering the phone in the White House at 3:00 o’clock in the morning, I’m concerned about who’s answering the phone at your house when God calls and he says to you, are you fed up?  Will you wake up?  Will you show up?  Will you stand up?  Will you pray up?  Will you speak up?  And will you promise to never give up?
 
"America is not in trouble because of the people who don’t share our values.  America’s in trouble because the people who do share our values aren’t showing up." 

Before his speech, Huckabee did a media availability.  The first question had to do with Huckabee's intentions for 2016; he responded by emphasizing the need to focus on 2014.

A number of familiar figures accompanied Huckabee including (above) Chip Saltsman, who managed Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign, as well as Bob Wickers, who was lead strategist, pollster, and media consultant on the campaign, and Alice Stewart.
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