Since when is announcing your candidacy more than a year before the election “too late”?
Frankly, the debates so far on both sides have been absolutely pointless, and hardly anyone has been paying attention to them.
People will be sick of Obama and Hillary after they have seen them on the covers of news magazines in the supermarket for nearly two years.
As I said last May, summer would have been the worst possible time to announce a candidacy, since everyone is off on vacation, in spirit if not in actuality. TV is into reruns, and it’s too hot to worry about politics. After Labor Day is the natural time for the announcement, and it’s exactly what I expected.
HAHAHAHAHA Yeah right! That’s why he’s racing up the polls, because he waited too long! LOL!
Firstly, pundits and reports don’t decide when it’s too late for a candidate to enter a race. That’s for the voters to decide.
Secondly, repeating a lie doesn’t make it true.
Thirdly, the premise of the article is false, as is evidence by the recent poll results.
Pssst. Take a peek at the calendar. It's STILL summer!
I don’t think he came in that far too late, although if he had waited much longer you could definitely make that case.
The point is, he’s in it. And he’s riding off a bounce right now with a slight lead in the polls. The next few weeks will be the key.
Hillary has been campaigning for president/dictator since 1992. I think she got in too early and it’s too late for her to do anything about it.
What a bunch of chicken littles.Maybe they dont know of rasmussen?
From the local weather morons to global warming prophets to hurricane gurus to political pundits to Psychic Friends Network types, I have yet to see anyone predict the future with any accuracy. The greater the agenda, the greater the “prediction”. Some make good educated guesses, some are just idiotic. Oh yeah, how many named storms were we supposed to get this year when they first “predicted”? 17. Then revised down and down again (8 so far). Second year in a row that none have hit the Gulf coast (yet at least this year). I’m sure they’re disappointed as is Smokin’ Al Gore along with all the FT doomsayers.
It’s interesting to note, the democrat candidate who went on to win that party’s nomination in 2004 declared his candidacy exactly four years ago ... last Sunday.
Clemson political scientist Doug Woodard
political scientist Robert Botsch
Emory University analyst Merle Black
No, quite the opposite, the others are all nauseatingly old news now! What they don’t realize is the American people are tired of this already! GO FRED!
Fred Thompson is making his own rules. He want to be the outsider. In doing so he is getting free publicity and doesn't need to raise as much money and spend it on a prolonged primary season.
If he runs the country like his campaign, spending may well be under control much more quickly amd decisions will be made strategically rather than reflexively.
Just keep on saying his name, Dinosaur Media.
With those poll numbers you site... this article is what we call “screwing the pooch”!
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I figgered that’d happen if he announced, he’d bounce into the lead within a week. If you couple that with a strong debate performance coming up, within a week after that he’ll be rolling in the poll numbers AND the contributions.
it was brilliantly ‘late’ and saved him a fortune. Everyone else was way too early.
BS! There isn't going to be a vote cast for four months. How can FDT be too late?
You forgot to include the BS Alert.
This whole 08 election mess reminds me of WalMart putting out Christmas stuff before Halloween.
Why rush the freaking season?
I like several of the potential candidates, and particular kudos to Thompson for waiting a bit. Let’s see what happens over the winter, before we start getting hysterical.