[Snow:] Welcome back to CNN's BALLOT BOWL. I'm Mary Snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And Milwaukee is the site tonight where both Democratic presidential hopefuls, Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton will be speaking at the Founder's Day gala, it is a Democratic dinner. Both of them are scheduled to be here tonight. Their supporters are gathering here now which is perhaps why you're seeing the signs behind me. We're concentrating on the Republican side of this race. Republican candidates are not here in Milwaukee this weekend. But former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was campaigning in Wisconsin earlier this week. He took a break for the day from the campaign trail, but he is remaining defiant and staying in this race. Let's take a listen to what Mike Huckabee had to say out on the campaign trail.
[Mike Huckabee , Presidential Candidate:] I'm the only person that doesn't get paid by the taxpayers to campaign. Senator Clinton, Senator Obama, Senator McCain campaign every day, and I'm paying for their campaigns. I'm paying because I'm a taxpayer, and I have to pay for their Senate salaries even if they're not on duty. The taxpayers aren't paying a dime for me to campaign. And I don't take anything from my campaign, so I have to make a living. I do that through my writing and my speaking. I've been doing that for quite some time. This is particularly an event that has been on my calendar for a number of months. It's also one difficult that I did several years ago. It's a group of young professionals, they give a leadership award. I spoke at their very first event like this, I think it has been 10 years ago. They have invited me back and it has been on my calendar for several months. And so I'll be on the campaign trail through Friday. I'll be gone Saturday. I'll be back Sunday. So I'll be gone for one day. Nobody asked Senator McCain where he was last weekend when he was gone off the trail. I'm telling you where I'm going to be. Told you up front. There will be a few other times when I've got to go out and make sure that I can pay my mortgage payment, just like everybody else has to do. I'm not independently wealthy. I wish I was.
[Question:] Governor, [OFF-MIKE] suggested in your speech that you majored in miracles and not math. Would you consider being the Republican vice presidential candidate part of that miracle that you've been majoring in?
[Huckabee:] That's not even something I'm up for discussion on because it's not my decision to make, number one. I doubt it will ever be presented to me. And thirdly, last time I checked, I'm still running for president. I thought we had some signs back there. But oh, they're up there. And all of them still say "Huckabee for president." My experience in life is, if you set a goal and you have a secondary goal that's easier, at some point when things get really, really tough, if you're not careful, you'll fall for the easier task. So I've not allowed myself to start thinking about the what-ifs, and what if I don't win and all of the other things. I've been asked for a lot of questions. Would I run for the Senate? I've been absolutely adamant that I won't. In fact, I've told people that yesterday I was in Washington and my comment was that there's a greater chance of me dying my hair green, being tattooed all over my body and going on tour with Amy Winehouse then, for example, running for the U.S. Senate. And I have no intentions of doing anything right now other than running for president.
[Snow:] That's Mike Huckabee in Wisconsin, earlier this week, always using colorful analogies when giving answers, and we was asked a number of questions. One of those questions being, is he running for vice president, because certainly that has come up so much since he has insisted that he's going to stay in this race despite the fact that the math is virtually impossible for him to catch up in the delegate count. Also you heard him talking about the Cayman Islands. He's giving a speech there. There were some questions since he had been critical of businesses that set up shop in the Cayman Islands, not paying taxes. And he was questioned about whether he should be going there to give a speech. But he reminded everybody that he needs to make a living. And he also pointed out that one thing that he's hitting on is that he is the only candidate who doesn't have a Washington address. He has really tried to set himself apart as the Washington outsider. So that's a little bit of the Republican race. You heard from the candidates on the campaign trail. When we come back, we're going to take a look at the candidates online. Stay with us.