08-03-2007, 01:13 AM | #1 |
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Has Fred Thompson's Rose Lost It's Bloom?
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DEMOCRATS Hillary Rodham Clinton, 40 percent Barack Obama, 21 percent Al Gore, 12 percent John Edwards, 11 percent REPUBLICANS Rudy Giuliani, 27 percent Fred Thompson, 18 percent John McCain, 16 percent Mitt Romney, 10 percent There's lots of time for changes, but: Of late, Clinton has extended her lead over Obama. It's possible that Thompson has missed his window of opportunity. McCain's numbers seem to have stabilized.
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08-03-2007, 01:22 AM | #2 |
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I now reside in a country whose populace I cannot love. Any populace that could favor Hillary, is not a populace with which I can identify. I am but an anachronism.
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Conventional thinking is, if you haven't entered the race and are losing before you're being hit, you won't get money.
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Thompson is not getting much money, seems indecisive (or so say my conservative friends), and his staying out of the fray looks more and more like cowardly sniping from the sidelines as time passes. Gingrich is great at this sort of thing because he's not a serious contender for the presidency (he could be angling for an appointment, though). McCain may not be as DOA as Giuliani and Romney supporters want him to be. He's a battler and his numbers have been up the last week or so.
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08-03-2007, 02:17 AM | #6 |
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because he's still leading in NH and Iowa. You're smart enough to know most of the country has no say in who gets nominated.
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Thompson will face several challenges. First, getting cash quick. Many of the big donors have chosen their candidates, so his pool may be limited. Second, building an effective infrastructure in key states in a short period of time. The best campaign consultants are employed by other candidates to further add difficulty. Third, he'll finally have to face the full scale assault of other campaigns. He will be the main focus of the other candidates and they'll go after him hard. Their powder has been kept dry up to this point, so who knows how he'll handle himself. Fourth, the standard strategy of political campaigns is to keep public expectations low and then overachieve. The media has made him out to be the great GOP hope, so he has to deliver big. It's not likely to happen. I've always liked Senator Thompson, but I've never been blown-away impressed with him. Hopefully he'll do well. A good showing by him will only serve to, as Bronco would say, raise the barfor the other candidates |
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That's kinda what I've been saying about Thompson too. General dissatisfaction with the current candidates leads to irrational love for the guy not playing.
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FN is doing all it can to annoint Giuliani without it seeming too obvious.
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