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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Presidential campaign newcomer Fred Thompson is moving faster than any other candidate to attract well-known Alabama Republicans who want to be his delegates to the Republican National Convention. The Alabama Republican Party opened qualifying last month for people who want to be elected delegates for a candidate at the party convention next September. While it's still early in the qualifying process, more people have signed up to be Thompson delegates than all other candidates combined. The former Tennessee senator is the only Republican presidential candidate with direct Alabama ties. He was born at a hospital in...

Throughout the next few weeks, I will examine the congressional records of Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter. Today, I start with the 104th Congress (1995-1996), Mr. Thompson’s first. These are the two men that conservative activists in the party tend to support. Both Hunter and Thompson supporters believe their candidate is the man to knock out the Rudy-Mitt-McCain axis of moderates, and ultimately, the socialist that the democrats nominate. A side by side comparison of the congressional records, during the years that Thompson served, will prove useful in determining what motivations and priorities each man embraced. Fred supporters claim their...

Tuesday, September 04, 2007 AdvertismentArizona is the home state for John McCain, but Fred Thompson is the strongest GOP Presidential candidate in the state at this time. A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found that Thompson leads Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton by seventeen percentage points, 51% to 34%. Thompson will be formally announcing his candidacy this week. Rudy Giuliani, who leads the polls for the Republican Presidential nomination, leads Clinton by eleven points, 49% to 38%. McCain has a ten-point edge over Clinton, 46% to 36%. With McCain as the GOP candidate, 15% of Arizona voters say they’d select a third...

Fred Thompson has announced his announcement date, a sentence that only makes sense in the Byzantine world of American campaign finance law. He will officially declare himself a Presidential candidate on September 6th, a move that will allow him to publicly argue for his election based on specific policy proposals, raise cash, and attend debates: Republican Fred Thompson, whose entry into the presidential race has been long anticipated, will officially launch his candidacy Sept. 6 in a webcast on his campaign site, followed by a five-day tour of early primary states, the Associated Press has learned. A tour of Iowa,...

U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., blasted the "24-hour news cycle" Friday, saying that a barrage of coverage in a lengthy presidential campaign will turn off Americans. "You think these candidates want to campaign for two and a half years for president? Are you kidding me?" Rep. Wamp said to members of the Chattanooga Civitan Club at Bessie Smith Hall. Rep. Wamp said former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., whom the congressman is backing for president, "knows he wasn't supposed to start this early." "I don't know how it's going to end up, but y'all are going to be sick of...

Presidential candidates always make a big deal of the advice they get from their wives. Ronald Reagan told voters that Nancy was his closest adviser; Bill Clinton said Hillary was so crucial to his team that electing him would be a "two-for-one" deal. On the trail, John Edwards and Barack Obama showcase their smart, outspoken spouses. Politicians seem to think it humanizes them—and increases their appeal to women voters—to come off as just a little henpecked. Fred Thompson has his own version of the shtick. Speaking at a fund-raiser last week, he introduced Jeri Kehn Thompson as "my campaign manager—oh,...

NYT: Billing records show Fred did lobby for abortion group; Update: Pro-Fred blogger apologizes to LA Timesposted at 8:44 am on July 19, 2007 by Allahpundit(Allahpundit [also known as Allah] is a blogger best known as the author for defunct blog Allah Is in the House, a satirical political blog existing 2003-2005, and as an active contributor to Michelle Malkin's Hot Air.)Patterico beat me to the punch. What on earth was Mark Corallo thinking when he told the LA Times no way nuh uh never happened when he didn’t know that for a fact? Did the campaign even think to...

Washington - Capping nearly seven years of twists and turns and tenacious struggle, the Senate on Wednesday passed the most ambitious campaign reforms in a quarter-century, sending to President Bush a bill to ban the unlimited political contributions known as soft money. While calling it "flawed in some areas," Bush said Wednesday that he would sign the legislation, creating a new set of ground rules for the presidential and congressional elections of 2004. Opponents have promised a court challenge. "This bill won't miraculously erase distrust and suspicion of the Congress overnight. It won't completely end the primacy of money," said...

Potential Republican Presidential candidate Fred Thompson has a website that should be a model for anyone aspiring to political office. Well over a year remains before the 2008 Presidential election takes place. Candidates like Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, and John McCain have been staking out spots online, with the aid of their campaign machines, in the hopes of engaging voters. At this early date, money remains the first, second, third, and probably twenty-fourth most significant concern for White House aspirants. The Thompson website, I'm With Fred, features links to donate and raise funds should the actor/Senator pursue a...