Hmmm. No one called me..
Wake me up about the 7th inning.
Looks like Mary Matalin coming on board gave a big boost to Fred’s sagging campaign....
(that’s sarcasm, by the way)
“Rudy Giuliani: 24% (-4) Fred Thompson: 18% (+5)”
That’s without even being in the race. Rudy is toast.
Who are these 17% that support McCain?
"then January 19, 2004, Dean's campaign suffered a blow when a last-minute surge by rivals John Kerry and John Edwards led to an embarrassing third-place defeat for Dean in the 2004 Iowa Democratic caucuses",
All the pre election polls in the world can make claims , but nothing matters until the voters see the Candidates, and vote.
Go, Fred, Go!!!!
Rudy will back out, again, on a potential match with Hillary. McLame is too old. Romney is non-descript. The rest are unkown. This leaves a big opening for FRED.
I see Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson as the top two going all the way to the Convention. When Fred gets into the debate cycle, he will have to think quick on his feet. There will be no script and he will need to show the electorate that he is as adept to the changing situation as Rudy has demonstrated so far.
The lightning bolts were the telling indicator.
McLaughlin & Associates conducted a national survey of 1,000 likely general election voters between May 28th and June 1st, 2007. Within this sample, 350 voters were Republicans. All interviews were conducted via telephone by professional interviewers. Respondents were randomly selected within predetermined election units structured to correlate with actual voter turnout in a national election. The survey of 1,000 likely general election voters has an accuracy of + 3.1% at a 95% confidence interval. For the subsample of 350 Republicans, the accuracy is +5.2% at a 95% confidence interval.
The opinion of likely PRIMARY voters (not general election voters) will give anything resembling a pseudo-prediction right now.....if at all. AND "national" surveys for a state-by-state election...just more polistat lies to make a nice headline and try to get some respectability in the polling world.
...and the PEW survey is even more atrocious:
Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International among a nationwide sample of 1,503 adults, 18 years of age or older, from May 30-June 3, 2007
A nationwide survey of "adults" and who they would vote for is and will always be irrelevant pertaining to presidential elections.
Fred - time to cr_p, and get off the pot...
I don’t know about this poll, but the recent USA Today poll had a margin of error of 6. If this is the case for this poll, we’re just about at a statistical tie.
Ah yes, the home phone poll...I have yet to see a MSM piece on how the pollsters are dealing with people like me and my two voting age sons who use cell phones and internet phones that are not listed.
Now, how does John McCain get a label like “rhino”, while Fred Thompson, same legislative support, same congress of Bill Frist, get anointed a “real” conservative?
RReagan spent twenty years clawing and championing his way to a leadership position to defeat communism. Fred Thompson builds an unprofessional website—and it’s bad—in one month and the guy can’t answer what his most important issue is as President (2:04 minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr6SnS2YjDA )
Fred sounds unprepared and sloppy on Hannity and other shows. His website looks unprepared and sloppy. The next President has a lot of work to do to stop the demobilization of the United States. And you want others to vote for Fred Thompson to mobilize the country to defeat terrorism?
“Honor, Duty, Country?”
By William F. Buckley Jr.
http://author.nationalreview.com/latest/?q=MjE0Ng==
Fred - 25.6
Rooty - 24.3
Romney - 22.2
McInsane - 15.3
Rooty (2007 high was 42) and McInsane (2007 high was 50) are losing ground. Romney (2007 high was 24) is working on a bit of a surge and hanging in there, Fred (he's now at his 2007 high) is showing constant strength.
These numbers tend to be more realistic than polls because people are betting real money on them, not talking to pollsters.
If Fred gets the nomination, who should be his VP?
Thompson was obviously the winner in last night’s debates. Most of the talk in our workplace this morning was regarding Fred’s appearance on H&C last night not on the RINOs
I have no doubt that Fred will ultimately take it, no other candidate has such wide appeal as he does among the base. It’s his to lose, only a major gaff or something like that on his part would be able to stop him.