Interesting comments by Fred. Either his internal polling is showing something different from publicly available data, or he shouldn’t have raised expectations like this.
There's also the possibility that what Fred said meant something entirely different than what CBS reported Fred to have said.
FWIW, I'd consider the source of this first. And I don't mean Fred :)
Those polls show well over 50% of Republicans in Iowa undecided. Let us see who they make up their minds for.
I think he is just being honest. I believe he must finish second in order to eventually win the nomination.
Based on this and an earlier quote that he doesn't really want the job methinks he is getting ready to bail. If so, who would he support? McCain?
Or he's just crazy....
like a fox. ; )
Interesting comments by Fred. Either his internal polling is showing something different from publicly available data, or he shouldn’t have raised expectations like this.
However there’s another possiblilty and it maybe he’s setting the stage for an announcement later on if he doesn’t improve a bunch. Hope that isn’t it but we’ll see shortly as there is basically on 3 days left until Iowa does it’s thing.
Interesting comments by Fred. Either his internal polling is showing something different from publicly available data, or he shouldn’t have raised expectations like this.
However there’s another possiblilty and it maybe he’s setting the stage for an announcement later on if he doesn’t improve a bunch. Hope that isn’t it but we’ll see shortly as there is basically on 3 days left until Iowa does it’s thing.
This is a gamble.. If he can convince his supporter he is going to do quite well, the reasoning is they will come out to support him. But such tactics rarely work.
If the gamble works as usual he will be at the bottom of the pack.
Typically in Iowa it takes a huge ground game to get out the voters on caucus night. Fred does not have a lot of workers so he is trying this tact. It rarely works but at this stage long odds gambles are all that is left.
It is like his final week of TV ads. They are almost always counter productive. By this time the TV viewers are really annoyed about all the TV Ads and tend to vote against the guy who saturates the air waves with political spots in the final week.
But the gamble is that if the spots are especially good and the voters respond as he hopes they might, it could work. But the odds say the spots will be counter productive.
Such advertising campaigns are almost always counter productive as are claims of doing better than expected. But they are a gamble .. if they work, he could be in tall cotton. But the odds are he will be out the race by the time they count the votes in New Hampshire.
You'd think Fred would say he wanted to win, no exceptions.