Fred’s decline in the polls seems to have begun when he said of the Schiavo case (on 9/13)
“I can’t pass judgment on it. I know that good people were doing what they thought was best,” Thompson said. “That’s going back in history. I don’t remember the details of it.”
Here’s another chart.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/charts/?poll_id=192
Opinions differ. That’s mine.
One thing many here are forgetting, is that there is no national primary. Rather, it is 50 individual races. Ergo, what should matter is how candidates are doing in those respective states, with primacy given to the early ones.
While not committed to any candidate yet, you gotta hand it to Romney for the way he’s conducting his campaign. That a Mormon & Republican from Mass has managed to snare the leads in Iowa, NH and SC (or a tie-—depends on the poll) is quite impressive. Is it a blip or indicative of the future, as those early states typically pay more attention to politics than non-early primary states?
And, if one is to draw conclusions from the national trend graph above, you can see that Huckabee is trending up while Fred is trending down. Will be an interesting race.
Whoever becomes the GOP nominee, let’s pray we can beat Hillary. We should ALL agree on that one!