Poll shows Fred Thompson a runaway winner (Newt runner-up)

WorldNetDaily ^ | April 14, 2007

[2ndDivisionVet]

Collects 2-1 margin of victory over nearest runner-up.

Republican Fred Thompson, the target of several "draft Fred" for the White House campaigns, easily won a presidential poll conducted by the American Family Association.

The Alabama native was sent to the Senate after winning a 1994 special election in Tennessee to fill the unexpired term of Democrat Al Gore and was re-elected in 1996. He chose in 2002 not to seek re-election and has appeared in several Hollywood productions since.

In the new AFA poll, he collected 24,872 votes for president in a compilation taken just hours before the poll closed at midnight yesterday.

The runner-up was former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, with 9,889 votes, while ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was third with 7,877.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was fourth with 6,154; John McCain fifth with 5,090; Mike Huckabee sixth with 3,179; Sam Brownback seventh with 3,051; Tom Tancredo eighth with 2,060; and Ron Paul ninth with 1,884.

The leading Democrat in the poll was John Edwards, in 10th with 1,780 votes, and he was followed by fellow party members Barack Obama with 1,414 and Hillary Clinton with 1,108.

[A1 Southern Man]

Just went and voted. One vote per e-mail address.

Rudie is the dems best hope for the White House. If rudie gets the Republican nod the democrat is a lead pipe cinch to win. Death for the Republican party in 2008 is spelled Giuliani.

[madconserv]

“Will this cancer issue do any damages to Fred’s chances?”

My father lived in Florida and then Arizona. He developed skin cancer. Controlled it for years. He died from Alzheimer's.

Fred's cancer issue should not be an issue IMHO.

[madconserv]

Rudy’s still way ahead.

I saw on Fox News last night that Rudy and Mitt are dropping in the polls. All polls summed up in general. I think it was the beltway boys.

[nathanbedford]

Fred Thompson , the one who can win.

Yes I think Fred Thompson is the one who can win and I fear he is the only one who can win. Barring a dramatic incident between now and election Day, this election belongs to the 'rats. On a state-by-state geographical breakdown the Republicans are in serious trouble when all the border states and even (gasp) Virginia were lost in the last election. We just lost Ohio, gone the way of Pennsylvania, likewise Missouri, and we simply cannot win the presidency without Ohio and Missouri and Virginia. By November we will have held office going on eight years and that indicates a problem for the incumbent party. But at the end of the day, the real problem is Iraq. Unless we can fix that mess we will lose the presidency and even more of the House and Senate.

But a year and a half in politics is, as they say, a lifetime and we may yet see some intervening events like 9/11 which stands everything on its head and opens the gate for the Republicans to hold on. I do not think it will be enough merely to put the Democrats fingerprints on the war and blame them for a Vietnam like ending. This is the Republicans' war and how it goes will probably determine the next election. But how it goes will not be determined objectively but by a media determined to stop the war and destroy the Republican Party. Remember, the media has already convinced enough Americans before the last election that 3000 fatalities were too much to bear and that the war was lost.

In the face of this grim prospect, Fred Thompson is the only candidate who is acceptable to all parts of the Republican spectrum and who also has requisite personal gravitas to make incursions into independents and Reagan Democrats needed to hold the states mentioned above as well as the Southwest which is cracking as well, and even Florida.

If the Republicans lose the grip on the presidency as well as the legislative branch, I fear the party will be eclipsed for a generation.

[stockstrader]

It would be great to have a conservative like Fred to support. JulieAnnie would be a total disaster for the Republican Party.

The only way that the Republican Party can win--is with a united, enthusiastic, energized party. A LIBERAL like JulieAnnie would DIVIDE the party wide open,,,a conservative like Fred would UNITE it!!

GO, FRED, GO!!

[djf]

Fred would clean the clock of anybody he went up against.

He inspires confidence and the good of the country.

I doubt we’ll be hearing “We need a guest worker program...”

Bush should just come out and say either “I am for helping Mexicans become middle class” or flat out say “We need a slave-wage underclass”.

Get a clew, folks.
It ain’t the first.

[AndyTheBear]

...I fear he [Thompson] is the only one who can win...

I think "Hillary" could unite the Republican base even if the Republican candidate otherwise could not. Seems like Rudy would have a good shot if she gets the Democrat nod.

[jellybean]

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Draft Fred Thompson

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[backhoe]

[hellbender]

It’s even more pathetic that an advocate for partial-birth infanticide and gay rights, Giuliani, came in third, and that thousands voted for Demonrats.

[traderrob6]

“It’s even more pathetic that an advocate for partial-birth infanticide and gay rights, Giuliani, came in third, and that thousands voted for Demonrats.”

Most of those are the”lesser of two evils” sort of voters.

[Caipirabob]

Will this cancer issue do any damages to Fred’s chances?

Considering the cancer currently running the house and the senate, will anyone even notice? ; p

[Right_in_Virginia]

Steele is a fine man. But, I don’t want to put our hope in a candidate that could not win his recent state-wide election

Even if that state is liberal-soaked Maryland?

[Right_in_Virginia]

I like the idea of Thompson/Steele better.

This team would bring me out in force and open my wallet!

[johnny7]

I like the idea of Thompson/Steele better.

I like that too...

[mborman]

Good news!

No Newts and no Rudys, please!

[KoRn]

"If the Republicans lose the grip on the presidency as well as the legislative branch, I fear the party will be eclipsed for a generation."

What I find ironic is that very same thing was being said of the Democrats just three years ago following the Bush re-election. That alone tells us that MUCH can change in a short period of time. Of course the entire Democrat 'turn around' was at least partly facilitated by congressional Republicans surrendering to the Democrats at every turn, lack of conservative leadership from President Bush, and manipulation of the electorate by a very biased media.

[hellbender]

I suspect most of them are uninformed ignoramuses, like much of the American electorate. Others may be liberal “crossovers” who follow AFA just to see what their enemy is up to.

[airborne]

If he’s going to run, he needs to announce, and get into the May debates.

Just my opinion.