When Reagan ran, the NH Primary was the first week of March. There's every indication that this time it will be moved up to December of 2007. Furthermore, Reagan had nearly won the nomination in '76, and so was already well known and vetted. It isn't 1980, Carter isn't in the WH, and Fred Thompson is no Ronald Reagan.
>>When Reagan ran, the NH Primary was the first week of March. There’s every indication that this time it will be moved up to December of 2007. Furthermore, Reagan had nearly won the nomination in ‘76, and so was already well known and vetted. It isn’t 1980, Carter isn’t in the WH, and Fred Thompson is no Ronald Reagan.<<
Its not like Thompson is wasting this time - he’s shuffling his team, lining up big donors and getting face time in Iowa.
The NH Primary is most likely to get moved up by 8 weeks while Thompson is likely to announce 6 weeks earlier than a traditional November late entry, like President Reagan’s.
A 2 week narrower window isn’t a big deal if his team is already on the ground. If Thompson gets the nomination, does anybody think the Republican establishment will fail to fund him equally with the Democratic nominee? He’s fine.