If you go back even three months you will see as many or more campaign stops for Thompson as the others. What you will not see is any coverage of them.
See, that’s the problem; a savy candidate and/or campaign manager would know how to generate excellent coverage for him. The coverage might not all be “good”, but no coverage is bad coverage, in some ways. You’d think with all the contacts Fred and his wife have, that they’d be able to keep him in the headlines, but they haven’t.
Having a winning message is only 1/2 the battle; for instance, Ron Paul and Kucinich (sp?) have similar, fringe messages, and both are polling very poorly, since neither have a message that can win. Ron Paul however, love him or not, has an absolutely incredible campaign machine to market his message, and obviously has been able to garner a lot of money and free publicity as a result. Of course, he won’t win since he doesn’t have a winning message.
I’ve been a supporter of Fred even before he officially announced, but he’s done a horrible job of marketing himself; hopefully he/we can turn things around before it’s too late.
Fred has to come in first or second in South Carolina.
“I’ve been a supporter of Fred even before he officially announced, but he’s done a horrible job of marketing himself; hopefully he/we can turn things around before it’s too late.”
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out Thompson could have had a better campaign, and you’re an honest FredHead to recognize it (many dont admit it). After all, he’d be the frontrunner, soaking up major slices of other candidates’ voting pool, if his campaign was top-notch.
“Having a winning message is only 1/2 the battle”
Fred failed 1st in failing to lock up the socon vote, and he did it due to his nonchalant dismissiveness towards key litmus test issues - like FMA, Shaivo, and his answers on MTP in early November. I honestly think that if Fred had (a) jumped in earlier (like July) and (b) paid close attention to those issues and voters, Huckabee would be at 3% and Fred would have major sectors of the conservative coalition locked down.
Fred failed second in his press relations. Many little things - Thompson campaign hired someone from Fox, then promptly dumped him, making him unemployed after they gave up a good job to help him. People think Fox has a bias against Thompson? Maybe there’s a personal reason for it.
Campaigns all have their foibles, but if Thompson started earlier, he would have been able to work out the kinks in time and ‘warm up’. He’s been getting better, but he’s run out of runway before he could take off.
Fred has the makings of a good consensus candidate; when the worst they have on you is your campaign isn’t the best, you ain’t so bad.
As it is, Mitt Romney is IMHO the best candidate in the remainder of the field. Either we support him, or we get McCain or Huckabee who IMHO are both much worse as choices.
LOL!! The President can't even get headlines from the MSM, how do you expect Fred to do so, if the MSM isn't interested in getting his name out there, except in a negative way?