Can dinosaurs save the Huntsman campaign?

Published August 21, 2011 4:00am ET



Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is enjoying the best week of his, until now, largely irrelevant presidential campaign. On Thursday, Huntsman tweaked Texas Gov. Rick Perry with a 90 character tweet: “To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”

A whopping 3,600 users re-tweeted Huntsman thoughts on evolution, which according to Adam Green of 140Elect.com, is a new record for Republican presidential candidates. Huntsman not only gained 4,275 twitter followers that day, but ABC News even awarded Huntsman prime billing on This Week. Huntsman did not disappoint ABC News producers by backing off his evolution fetish. Huntsman told Tapper:

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