I think he could surge, but I don’t think this is how it will happen. For a brief time this last summer, the race was Thompson’s to lose. Right now his best chance is to focus on his agreement with social conservatives, to emphasize small gov’t and seriously plan for reduced spending, and to fully and completely (more than he has to this point) denounce his past dreadful support for regulating speech.
Anything can happen at this point. It is all up to Fred, his campaign and the remaining candidates.
Why do they keep saying that Keyes just now joined the race? He joined almost the same time Thompson did I believe. Keyes has also been in 2 TV debates, and one internet one.
“Can Fred Thompson Surge?”
I heard that Fred said that he needs third or better in Iowa in order to stay in the race. Should fred drop out, who then would you personally support?
Fred ping!
Surge Fred Surge!
Bottom line for me, it is Fred for the Republic or the Republic just might get lost over the next few years of liberal administration with Liberal to Rino Congress.
Hope still alive here and not on life support just quite yet. Keep up the good work.
Uh, sorry to break this to the writer, but the RonPaulites will NOT vote for the Republican candidate (see local web poll*) they will wait for whatever third party candidate emerges that is closest to their personal ideology, whether it is the constitution party, the Libertarian Party, or some other fringe party.
* After being barraged by emails from Paul supporters for not including him in an earlier poll of "top-tier" candidates, I put the aforementioned poll up to pin them down as to who (or what) they really were...I got the results I expected. BTW the original poll which remained up for about 2 months had less than a dozen responses; as you can see by the responses to this one (mostly received within 2 days), everything said about Paulites spamming polls is true.
Didn’t the media get that right? Me I am just going to vote, let the media report on what happens. The notion that the media can predict the future is as sound as humans can predict glow-bull warming in 100 years. Right now the media are having trouble predicting this week end's snow storm.
Furthermore -- Nearly all of these polls are of adults, read the fine print.
Gee, I wonder who the media is rooting for?
I’m pretty discouraged to be honest....yall can get mad at me.
I think unless Fred does 3rd or better in Iowa and 2nd or better in South Carolina then he is done for.
and the chances of that look slim
I would like to ring his campaign advisors neck........he had this election by the tail
and entered too late.
lackluster first two debates.
no big media push.
a couple of wromng answers Fred too.....abortion amendment for one.
damn shame....we will end up with much less than him....Romney is my best guess as a compromise
ok whip me....beat me