GOP candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter's quiet campaign

Monsters and Critics ^ | December 16, 2007 | By M&C US News

[Man50D]

Ann Coulter was just on H&C again saying she was for DUNCAN HUNTER!!!

Excellent! For Duncan Hunter and from Connecticut. What more could I ask for? ;O)

[Man50D]

When the media tires of the other candidates, they will place DUNCAN HUNTER front and center.

They're increasingly attacking each other in an all out effort to prove they are more Conservative than one another. Meanwhile Hunter proceeds with his message knowing he doesn't have to prove he is Conservative.

[Man50D]

However, like Gore v. Bush, it was a close race. Eisenhower beat Dewey by less than 5% of the vote. In hunter's case, you're asking everyone to believe that the polls are off by greater than 40%.

I won't dispute the percentage you cite as I don't have any data to confirm or refute that figure I will dispute Eisenhower beating Dewey as it was Truman who beat Dewey. Eisenhower won the 1952 election. My point about these polls is that they were wrong so late in the process. Consequently considering we are far earlier in the process it is much too soon for anyone to make any assumptions or conclusions.

[Melas]

I won't dispute the percentage you cite as I don't have any data to confirm or refute that figure I will dispute Eisenhower beating Dewey as it was Truman who beat Dewey. Eisenhower won the 1952 election. My point about these polls is that they were wrong so late in the process. Consequently considering we are far earlier in the process it is much too soon for anyone to make any assumptions or conclusions.

Lol. My bad. Correct figures, correct election, wrong president. This has to go down as one of the best (worst) FR blunders yet. Of course you're right, it was Truman. He won with 49.6% of the vote to Dewey's 45.1% Strom Thurmond was the wannabe spoiler of the age with 2.4%

I agree with you that polls are only worth so much, but when polls show something overwhelming (like single digits) they're never wrong. Obviously the pollsters, spinmeisters or not, have to maintain some modicum of credibility, and they simply can't be laughed off the stage with a 44% error. It's just not going to happen. 44% is my guess btw at the minimum ground that Hunter would have to make up to win this thing.

I know you guys want him to win, but c'mon, 44% six weeks from Super Tuesday? Unless Thompson, Romney and Guiliani are found in a homosexual 3-way being filmed by an illegal alien photographer while handing off state secrets to Putin's albino lover, it ain't gonna be sensational enough for anyone in the race to lose that much ground, to Hunter or anyone else.