Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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Posted on 09/16/2007 9:52:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Presidential campaign newcomer Fred Thompson is moving faster than any other candidate to attract well-known Alabama Republicans who want to be his delegates to the Republican National Convention.
The Alabama Republican Party opened qualifying last month for people who want to be elected delegates for a candidate at the party convention next September. While it's still early in the qualifying process, more people have signed up to be Thompson delegates than all other candidates combined.
The former Tennessee senator is the only Republican presidential candidate with direct Alabama ties.
He was born at a hospital in Sheffield, although he grew up across the state line in Tennessee, and he attended the University of North Alabama in Florence for a year.
Alabama citizens will vote for delegates when they participate in the presidential preference primary on February 5th. A Republican candidate will have to get 20% of the vote to win any convention delegates, but if one candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, he gets all the delegates.
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Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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