One more thing about the Huckabee finale here in Columbia last night. I asked Chip Saltsman, Huckabee’s campaign manager, what the thinking was behind the decision to hold the event on a university campus. To make it high-energy, Saltsman said, given that it was 9:00 p.m. and young people were more likely to turn out at that hour than retirees. It didn’t work out that way – the room wasn’t nearly full – but the bigger problem was that a campaign finale is supposed to be a declaration of principles, a big, strong, where-we-stand statement that unites all a candidate’s supporters. In New Hampshire, John McCain gave a great duty-honor-country talk in the chilly darkness of the Exeter town square. It was simply more inspiring than Mitt Romney’s to-do list. And in Greenville, Thompson gave a terrific I-am-a-conservative-always-have-been-always-will-be talk, while Huckabee stuck with his standard economic stump speech, surrounded by Ric Flair and the YouTube singers. There’s a time for joking around and a having a light touch, but Election Eve isn’t it.