In the summer of 2007 I traveled both the east and west coast; every conservative I knew was for Thompson. His poll numbers never got out of the mid single digits and he dropped out. To this day I don’t believe those poll numbers....I still wrote him in for the general election over McCain.
He had a weak speech (supposedly) and the Reagan/Lincoln dinner in California and he never recovered from that.
Too bad,he was top 3 and moving up before that.
I believe Huckabee was an establishment plant to keep Thompson from winning the Southern primaries. Huckabee and Thompson split the conservative votes.