Posted on 01/21/2007 1:02:23 PM PST by LC HOGHEAD
Iowa poll at 2% for Tancredo By M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News January 19, 2007 Rep. Tom Tancredo pulls just 2 percent in the latest Iowa presidential poll, but his sixth-place showing in a crowded field means he has the potential to influence the debate, pollster John Zogby said this week. Zogby's latest telephone poll in Iowa shows former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani leading the Republican field with 19 percent, followed by Arizona Sen. John McCain, 17 percent; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, of Georgia, 13 percent; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, 9 percent; former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, 5 percent; Tancredo, 2 percent; Sen. Chuck Hagel, of Nebraska, 2 percent. "On the Republican side, the two most talked-about candidates are doing well and will fight it out for the support of moderate Republicans and independents," Zogby said in a Wednesday release. "But our polling in this race also begs the question: Is Newt Gingrich the choice of the conservative wing?" Zogby said Gingrich could "complicate" efforts by Giuliani and McCain to move further to the right, and he also took note of Tancredo, who has become a national lightning rod over his crusade opposing illegal immigration. "An interesting development can also be found in the 2 percent support for conservative Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado," Zogby said. "It means that, if nothing else, he and Newt are going to influence the internal debate in the Republican Party." Tancredo made his latest scouting trip to Iowa last weekend and on Tuesday morning announced that he is forming an exploratory committee so he can begin fundraising and decide, probably by the summer, whether he will go forward with a longshot run for president.
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The Tancredo-haters will be here soon. They were whooping so hard after erading this that they had a group coughing fit and had to sit down for a minute.
Tancredo will be the only one in that field with anything to say: the others will talk in platitudes soothing to the Republican "faithful".
not known well enough to poll on - pollsters are idiots.
One doesn't have to hate Tancredo to think he would not be a successful candidate in the 2008 General Election. Many of us are not stupid.
Is just it me or does this seem a bit too early to take these polls that seriously.
Eh, don't bother explaining that concept - I've tried, and it doesn't work. People are unable to make any sort of distinction between their personal fantasy of an ideal candidate, and making strategic judgements about the electability of a given candidate (which involves thinking about who you can get OTHER people to vote for.)
right on both counts.
Even Tancredo doesn't really believe he can win, but he can sure force the other candidates on both sides of the aisle to talk about immigration.
Tom is going to wait until summer to announce?
Why not do it sooner if he's serious about it?
Your pat assumption that anyone who is willing to consider Tancredo is necessarily stupid is... stupid.
Only by twenty months or so.....
I would vote for Tancredo if he were the Repuplican nominee. I doubt he can beat Hillary though. Whoever beats her must hold the Republican base (conservative and moderates) and pick up enough Independents. I think it will take a ticket like Reagan/Bush was in 1980, the top two vote getters in the primary.
It would be stupid of you to write that I had a "pat assumption that anyone who is willing to consider Tancredo is necessary stupid."
The House did more than "talk" about immigration when they past HR4437 and we lost 25 of those seats in the last election.
That's real progress.
You can only be un-photogenic if you are a LEFTY, MINORITY or WOMAN, otherwise the MSM will ignore you.
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