Once Thompson is out and getting more media exposure, his face recognition will be even higher...”putting a name with a face.”
A lot of people have seen him, but might not remember his name.
I really think that Fred has outfoxed them all. He waited and the left got impatient and threw all their rubber darts at him. He has not spent a dime, and there is very little time left for them to try to take him down. He will get huge momentum out of the September announcement, which he will ride to victory in Iowa, where Romney’s support is marshmallow soft and then to New Hampshire.
All the pundits and prognosticators were, as usual, fighting the last war, using the 1976 playbook, because it gives them something to write about. Thompson, the wily fox, looks like he is going to fool them all.