Posted on 04/15/2007 10:59:08 AM PDT by pillut48
NewsMax Poll: Americans Want Fred Thompson in ’08
An Internet poll sponsored by NewsMax.com reveals that Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of Fred Thompson running for president in 2008.
Our “Should Fred Thompson Run for President” poll of nearly 100,000 people also disclosed that the former senator from Tennessee and “Law & Order” star would trounce all leading Republican candidates in a primary.
The results are surprising considering that Thompson has not even announced that he would run for the White House next year. But he has begun assembling the core of a campaign team in preparation for a possible run.
NewsMax will provide the results of this poll to major media and share them with radio talk-show hosts across the country.
Here are the poll questions and results:
1) What is your overall opinion of Fred Thompson?
Favorable: 94 percent Unfavorable: 2 percent No Opinion: 4 percent
2) Is Fred Thompson your candidate for president in 2008?
Yes: 77 percent No: 23 percent
3) In the following field, who is your 2008 candidate?
John McCain: 1.66 percent Condi Rice: 2.64 percent Mike Huckabee: .99 percent Miss Romney: 4.14 percent Rudy Giuliani: 7.53 percent Fred Thompson: 62.54 percent Tom Tancredo: 2.78 percent Ron Paul: 1.25 percent Newt Gingrich: 12.25 percent Duncan Hunter: 1.23 percent Sam Brownback: .97 percent Other: 1.99 percent
4) In a Republican primary of the following, who would you vote for?
Rudy Giuliani: 7 percent John McCain: 2 percent Newt Gingrich: 13 percent Fred Thompson: 78 percent
5) If the 2008 President race was between Fred Thompson & Hillary Clinton, who would you vote for?
Fred Thompson: 98.7 percent Hillary Clinton: 1.3 percent
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Duncan Hunter ranks second in the FR poll. The scores keep changing after poll closed. How is that?
I don’t think the poll is closed.
Run Fred Run!!!
Moderate Democrats around here like him. Liberals are scared spitless of him.
I saw quite a few Democrats with their names on the petition to Draft Fred.
Good enough for me.
He has already endorsed Fred. I bet he’d do it.
I think J.C. Watts would be the man to be the VP candidate.
I would like to see them all in cabinet positions as well as President and Vice President.
I thought this was a fairly sophisticated political and conservative forum, but obviously I'm wrong. If someone can come along and win primaries without spending the money to set up a campaign, recruit, organize, prepare mailings, make posters, yard signs, buttons, spend money on travel, not to mention purchase the incredibly expensive television ad time required for the February 5 primary states, then indeed that person should be President.
He might be a little scary, though, since he obviously would have the power to do miracles.
The James A. Garfield strategy.
Heck, it worked once!
Okay, I’m back...[runs through the hot shower to wash off unspleasantness]—
At HuffPo, seems like a good bunch are simply writing off Fred due to his age, his cancer, his ‘trophy wife’ (seems like an obsession with her breast size and her age)—and this gem on why Fred can’t win the presidency:
“The President has to have a sunny face. Like FDR, grinning through the Depression and WW II. Or Ike’s wonderful grin. JFK had a good one, too. Reagan (my kinsman through marriage) one of the best sunny faces. Also Bill Clinton (despite his flaws) could turn on the sunshine.”
Well, then, that sure rules out Hillary, don’t it? ;-)
And this sweet, tolerant response:
“I heard a Washington writer say this week that it is the “little” woman who is most anxious for him to run. So he is being foisted on the American people by his social-climbing, plastic surgery disaster of a wife! She thinks he’s her one shot at moving into the White House, and cancer or not, she’s rolling the dice. Of course, America, and the American people, are just there to install her in the Executive Mansion. Then we can all go to hell if he does up and die.”
Can you feel the love? ;-)
Barely any posts regarding Fred’s state positions on important issues, just the usual snide remarks because he’s conservative, a Republican, etc.
Over on DU {spits} there’s the same old, same old praising of liberal candidates, impeach Bush, go after Rove, we love President Pelosi, Obama, Hillary, Keith Olbermaniac rantings—the site doesn’t seem to have a search engine, so I had to wade through a significant amount (okay, okay, I could only stand to look around there for about 5 minutes before the nausea kicked in) of crap, and couldn’t find a single mention of Fred Thompson over there...not that there’s not anything, I simply couldn’t find it. If anyone else knows if there’s a search feature on DU, please let me know how to find it!
Oh, wait, I used the ‘find’ option in my menu and found a few posts:
“Fred Thompson, Ladies And Gentlemen, Will Never So Much As Enter A Primary”
http://tinyurl.com/2nqp7p
“MO Ground “War” Thompson Vs. Romney”http://tinyurl.com/385coo
“Thompson to replace Cheney???”
http://tinyurl.com/2kjwq9
No serious conversations about Fred’s philosphies, etc.
Again, seems like he’s being written off by the libbies.
Over at DK, someone opines “Why hasn’t Thompson won an Oscar?—If his speaking skills are that outstanding, one might conclude that he would have won at least one or maybe two. Republicans don’t want someone to run the nation. They want someone to allow the entire rightwing cabal to get their foot in the door so they can push the buttons that really run the show. A secondrate actor is perfect for the job. That’s how Reagan and even Bush got in there, and it’s probably why they don’t especially like McCain. They can’t trust him to do what he’s told to do.”
Pretty much the only thing about Fred over there.
So. When Fred Thompson announces his decision to run, and we know that he will :-) do y’all think the liberals will finally sit up and take notice? Or will they get blown away by the conservative groundswell of support for FDT?
So far, Fred hasn’t had to do *any* of those things, and look at the numbers on some of these polls! :-)
Now, he may have to spend some money on stamps and a campaign letter or two, but c’mon. Is spending millions of dollars for advertising REALLY a requirement nowadays for becoming president??
We’re all doomed to Hillary and Obama and the like if so!
I would like to think that American voters are more impressed with someone’s philosophy on various issues than over how glossy their campaign pamphlet is!
nice job going over to the DUmp, its a dirty job, but sometimes someone has to do it.
Thank you. Mike Rowe is my hero, LOL! :-)
You can't be serious. Do you think corporations spend millions of dollars in advertising for products that people already want for no good reason?
An internet poll of 100,000 politically-motivated people from around the country represents the population of one fairly small city.
There are 299,000,000 people who didn't weigh in, haven't made up their minds, and may not even remember Fred Thompson if they ever knew him in the first place.
Surely you don’t believe that the 300 million people in this country will actually register to vote? IIRC, not even a quarter of that amount does each election—word of mouth is still a very powerful tool, IMO.
I’m just wondering how on earth all those presidents prior to this age actually got elected without spending millions of dollars! :-)
Before television, candidates certainly didn’t have to buy TV time. They didn’t have to set up websites. They didn’t even have as many people to reach.
About 120 million voters cast votes for the presidency in 2004.
Assuming these results at NewsMax weren’t spam voted, we know how a small percentage feel. My computer calculator blows up trying to display what a small percentage that is.
I made it in powerpoint. FReepmail me your e-mail address and I'll send you the PP and the jpg.
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I made it in powerpoint. FReepmail me your e-mail address and I'll send you the PP and the jpg.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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