Not a single one.
But, but, but......the media is constantly saying that Fred’s campaign is collapsing.
Fred can take about half of Huckabee’s support and siphon off a little of Mitt’s and Rudy’s and win this thing.
Go Fred Go!
Don’t care for the methodology, but the trend is nice. ;)
Since when is a two point gain to 15 percent a “surge.” Ron Paul has gained even more as has Huckabee.
The ads are good ones... and he looks great, which is important given his health concerns.
Go Fred go!
70% of Romney supporters say they may change their mind.
Of course, there is also a 70% chance that Romney may change his mind on any issue.
“Fred Thompson is now in third place in Iowa”
He was in third place in the comparative survey on 31st July, when he was 13 points behind Mitt Romney.
In the latest survey he is still in 3rd place and still 13 points behind Romney.
Meanwhile Huckabee has tripled his support and gone from joint 4th to 2nd.
It would be more accurate to characterise that as a surge than Thompson’s numbers, wouldn’t it?
Doesn’t hurt that the “Conservative” Mitt Romney is getting a few holes worn in him...
a surge from 13% to 15%....That’s HUGH!
And the voters must have found out how pro-illegal alien the Huckster is.
What a difference 8 years can make...
this is from January of 2000 NYT:
But Iowans often make up their minds at the last minute, and polls suggest that they have not made their final caucus decisions yet.
‘’Politics is Muzak to a lot of people,’’ said David Yepsen, the chief political reporter for the Des Moines Register. ‘’They don’t pay attention until they have to, and that’s getting later and later. In the governor’s race last year, Tom Vilsack came from 25 points behind in the last three weeks to win by five points.’’
In this year’s Democratic contest, Mr. Bradley, a former senator from New Jersey, has decided to devote all or part of every day until the caucuses to campaigning here. A certain languor still marks his personal style, and he still tries to cast himself as a different kind of politician, who accentuates the positive. One day this week, he bent his 6-foot, 5-inch frame around a lectern and chatted for half an hour with schoolchildren about health.
But Mr. Bradley’s words in other contexts have taken on an edge, whether he is accusing Vice President Gore of neglecting the interests of Iowa farmers, many of whom have been left behind in the Clinton-era boom, or attacking him as a reliable friend of the big tobacco companies.
LOL!
If the endorsements and ads are doing their job, their job must be to give support to Mike Huckabee (who is truly surging)
Cheerleading for ones candidate is one thing, and very admirable. Lying in headlines is quite another.
GO! FRed GO!
I thought this was interesting, pretty amazing 19% of voters claim to have met Mitt Romney:
11/18/07
Have met candidate NET 19
Mitt Romney 6
Mike Huckabee 5
John McCain 4
Rudy Giuliani 3
Tom Tancredo 3
Tommy Thompson 2
Duncan Hunter 2
Sam Brownback 2
Ron Paul 1
Fred Thompson 1
Newt Gingrich *
Other 1
No opinion *
Have not met candidate 81
No opinion 0
| If the Republican caucus were being held today, and the candidates were: (Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Ron Paul, and Fred Thompson), who would you support? | ||
| NET LEANED VOTE: | ||
| 11/18/07 | 7/31/07 | |
| Mitt Romney | 28 | 26 |
| Mike Huckabee | 24 | 8 |
| Fred Thompson | 15 | 13 |
| Rudy Giuliani | 13 | 14 |
| John McCain | 6 | 8 |
