That is a commonly voiced opinion, which I would guess is held by a fair number of caucus-goers. OTOH, a lot of Huck's support is likely very comfortable with a preacher-type running things. Arkansas is not too too different on a scale.
And if I remember the scenario correctly, Gephardt was apparently number two on Kerry’s list of running mates, so his showing almost got him a VP nomination.
Poor rationalization. Gephardt was a national Dem leader who had previously mounted a credible run for president.
McCain has decades of money network and a history in New Hampshire. He has hired people with national campaign experience. And they, like Thompson, have changed from lying low to opening the spigot, because they like Thompson see the juggernaut that is the Romney campaign and they dare not allow a crisp organization to add momentum to efficiency.
McCain will disappear without New Hampshire. He is spending it all right now. With New Hampshire he then spends 2 solid days asking for more money before leaving for Grand Rapids.
We have the campaigns feeding the media things right now at a traditionally slow news time so there will be a sense of changing positions daily. The ARG polling results that just released look suspect methodologically to me as I mentioned in another thread. They took 600 samples, declared only 8.7% to be likely, computed results from that 8.7% (only 52 people) but tried to use 600 for their MOE calculation. This is just wrong. The MOE for a sample size of 52 is 13%, not 4%.