Two examples of this are his campaigns failure to give credence to either Iowa or New Hampshire. Saying they really didn't matter as much as South Carolina. And then magically in the past two weeks, now they have decided that Iowa was important (maybe because he was loosing ground in SC?). He is currently, according to Rasmussen at 2% in NH. Behind Paul and Tancredo.
The other example of his campaign "not gaining traction", is the fact that this week, they failed to even get on the Delaware ballot. The requirements for getting on the ballot are 500 signatures, yet they only mustered up 281 (many of those are also being disqualified, so the final number will be less). Delaware is a Super Tuesday primary, a organized campaign would not just "write it off".
Having said all that, only time will tell if his campaign can pull it off, but at this point his campaign (not the candidate, the campaign) has not been overly impressive. Because in the end, it's not the message, it is the presentation of that message that matters in elections.
I believe that Fred did not want to be on the Delaware ballot for some reason.
Maybe he got bad advice, but he could have gotten on so easily had he wanted to.
Maybe they thought he would do so poorly there that he would be better off not on the ballot.
Whether the reason was stupid or not, I don’t know, but I do think it was intentional.
My wife made the point that Thompson looks more like a person at the end of an 8 year presidential run. Things like this matter.
I'm not sure that's true. I think all the candidates got in under the wire but it was a last minute thing.
The GOP was sleeping on that one....and hey, I guess I should have been paying attention too,.