Posted on 05/03/2007 7:42:33 AM PDT by AFPhys
Do you know exactly how QP measures responses when someone says they “don’t know one of those persons” ... I sure don’t. If they only are including in the head-to-heads people who know the candidates, it IS a troubling situation.
Remember how you win the nomination - DELEGATES at the convention.
You have to have the organization to carry the delegates.
This is not a pure democracy.
Fred can be the most popular candidate in history - but you have to be able to organize the delegates.
Thompson will easily obtain both the small amount of cash he needs and the organization whenever he announces. There is no reason for him to rush his announcement.
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Giuliani is crushing the Democratic front-runners.
That tells me all I have to know.
Wonder why Fred does so poorly against all three Dems though.
Again, there are realities to campaigning in the 21st century. We are in May, now, and the first primaries are seven months away. As we saw with Kerry, WHOEVER wins the first few gains so much momentum as to be almost unbeatable. These are the facts of life, and Fred supporters (of which I am one) cannot pretend they don’t exist.
I think that’s downright silly. I don’t think he has more than a window of another month or two at best.
Although he had hopped in earlier, Kerry had kept his powder dry, also, waiting for Dean to exhaust himself, and then riding in as the experienced, competent candidate. (Hard to imagine...)
I believe dangus is referring to the primaries.
Meanwhile I'm on the TOMMY Thompson bandwagon, who I think has demonstrated far better that he's 100% committed to this race and has the ablity to win the "swing states" (Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc.) we need.
“even if FredT announces in JANUARY, he will easily obtain the Republican nomination”
so what’s the big deal about announcing? McCain only announced a few weeks ago and his numbers have been sinking like a stone.
It seems to me that once you announce you become a target.
Look I like Fred - I would support his as the GOP nominee 100% But you are dangerously wrong if you think he can wait and wait - and then throw a team together. It's not that simple.
Just heard Roger Hedgecock say CA’s prmiary is Feb. You cannot hope to use “mass media” and the Internet to campaign both there and in Iowa and New Hampshire. I’m sure Fred’s people are telling him this.
Even if they did do that, which is highly unlikely, the general election is NEXT NOVEMBER. I think Fred’s likable enough to make up 10-12 points in that amount of time. Doesn’t trouble me in the least.
You choose to agree with Morris and some other analysts.
I choose to agree with Gingrich and some others who have done analysis of this election cycle.
If Thompson chooses to wait until much later in the year, we’ll get to see which analysis is correct. I have a strong belief that there is going to be a great deal of candidate fatigue that sets in, and will work against those who have been campaigning for far too long.
In any event, we aren’t going to know the true answer any time soon, so we might as well both hold our fire on this argument. You have my express permission to say, “I told you so” if in the future I’m shown to be wrong.
I should have pinged you to my #37, too.
I hope, and I think you might be right.
We (the GOP) need Hillary to win the Dems nomination.
She is predictable.
Do you live in CA.? If so - where abouts?
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