Mike Huckabee making the talk show rounds, says he'll use the public's reaction to his book to help him decide whether to run in 2012

Huckabee is out hawking his book, not just to make money, but, he says, to see how people react to his ideas in the book as a way of deciding whether he should run. He also pledges to avoid attack adds. He says he is putting forward ideas.

He also says states are "sucking air" when it comes to budgets, and points to page 35 in his book, where he predicted we'd be seeing what we're witnessing in WI and elsewhere.

He says Obama's been so all over the map that we just don't know where he stands on important foreign policy issues.

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