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To: upsdriver

He should be making great inroads but isn’t. I just don’t get it. He’s one of the best idea men of all the candidates and yet he can’t get traction. I think he is a great and honorable man. And meanwhile, the Huckster IS rising in the ranks, heaven knows why. He’s the second slickster to come out of Hope, Arkansas.


9 posted on 11/28/2007 10:48:29 PM PST by flaglady47 (Thinking out loud while grinding teeth in political frustration)
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To: flaglady47

“He should be making great inroads but isn’t. I just don’t get it. He’s one of the best idea men of all the candidates and yet he can’t get traction. I think he is a great and honorable man. “


I thought that I got it tonight, he campaigns like he is a conservative congressman running for his safe 52nd district seat that he has owned for 26 years.

We are a red meat district and all we need to hear about is guns, the border, and that he is strong on what ever military issue is in the news that election, then we overwhelmingly vote him in again.

Tonight I realized that to reach a huge national audience that you have to transcend your home district.

Duncan lives in the choir and sings to the choir, and now he has picked up some new choir members, but doesn’t sing a tune that will attract a huge new following.

People respect him and they know the handfull of issues that he is dependable on, but they don’t see him as diverse and complex enough to take over the most wide ranging complex job on earth.


21 posted on 11/28/2007 11:06:22 PM PST by ansel12 (Proud father of a 10th Mountain veteran. Proud son of a WWII vet. Proud brother of vets, Airborne)
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To: flaglady47

The Huckster is just been rising lately and the media is already starting to burst his balloon by reporting on the stuff most of us already know. Every single one of the candidates suffer when investigative reporting sets on them, except Duncan Hunter.

I am hoping that Duncan Hunter will be in it for the long haul as none of the other candidates are running away with the nomination. They all are getting their time in the sun and but then fade. More and more people are taking notice of Hunter. At some point, I believe the tide will turn and Duncan will begin climbing. At least, that is my hope.


23 posted on 11/28/2007 11:07:49 PM PST by upsdriver (Duncan Hunter: For those who demand the very best!!)
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To: flaglady47

Well .. I’ve heard a couple of comments already that the Huckster has peaked too early .. so don’t dispair about Hunter .. he has to overcome the name recognition of the others.


39 posted on 11/28/2007 11:28:31 PM PST by CyberAnt (AMERICA: THE GREATEST FORCE for good in the world!)
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