There is a lot of hoopla about momentum and the importance of the early caucus of Iowa and the first in the nation primary in New Hampshire. But it is mostly air. Every state is important, and Fred treats every state with respect. Others candidates have essentially run campaigns that are tantamount to a campaign for governor of Iowa or governor of New Hampshire.
The fact is that there are more reporters and news cameras in both Iowa and New Hampshire than there are delegates.
The importance of New Hampshire is that it is now one of two major locations of the news media. When the delegate count starts, however, New Hampshire shrinks in stature, with a mere twelve.
Compare New Hampshire's twelve with some other Super Tuesday behemoths, where Fred is going to win. Georgia, where Fred enjoys a 2-1 lead over his nearest rival, sends 72 delegates. Fred's home state of Tennessee sends 55. Fred has held the lead in Colorado, which sends 46 and in Alabama, which sends 48.
From those states alone, Fred can win 221 delegates!
Once the bright lights leave New Hampshire and Iowa, their importance fades. Where is the victory if Mitt Romney, a governor from a neighboring state who has spent a small fortune on advertising in New Hampshire and a half a lifetime practicing retail politics there, wins New Hampshire with 33% of the vote? That will be worth, what, four delegates?
The delegate rules favor Fred. Fred is strongest in more heavily Republican states. According to the national rules, a state receives bonus delegates for having a Republican governor, for each Republican US Senator and if it cast its electoral votes for President Bush. Georgia earns twenty, for instance.
FredHeads everywhere should take heart in the numbers. Not the polling numbers out of Iowa or New Hampshire, but the numbers of delegates that Fred will win on February 5.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
Fred Proposes Real Solutions to Serious Problems
Of all of the contestants for the GOP nomination, Fred has established himself as the most consistent candidate. What he stands for today, he stood for yesterday and will stand for tomorrow. He does not tailor his message to the office he seeks. Fred has now also begun to distinguish himself from his GOP counterparts by making very serious and very detailed policy proposals.
He was the first to make a concrete proposal on immigration reform, a move which distinguished him from Governor Romney and Mayor Guiliani, both of whom ran sanctuaries for illegal aliens in their previous incarnations. It distinguished him from Senator McCain, who proposed the nightmarish federal Dream Act, and from Governor Huckabee, who has advocated privileges for illegal alients.
In early November, Fred proposed a comprehensive plan to reform the financially threatened Social Security system. The other major candidates have shied away from an issue thought of as a "third rail" of politics. The roundtable and press conference in which he made the proposal earned Fred over a half hour of prime time on CSPAN, and it won the praise of the Washington Post.
Then after Thanksgiving, Fred made a very detailed plan for tax relief, a plan that was applauded by the conservative Club for Growth. (Note: Gov. Huckabee has referred to the group as the Club for Greed.)
The best part of it all is that these are not just hollow election year promises, or recent conversions. You can bet on Fred because of his consistent, conservative voting record in the United States Senate, and his opinions as vocalized in years of addresses. This man has what it takes to serve as president.
He was the first to make a concrete proposal on immigration reform, a move which distinguished him from Governor Romney and Mayor Guiliani, both of whom ran sanctuaries for illegal aliens in their previous incarnations. It distinguished him from Senator McCain, who proposed the nightmarish federal Dream Act, and from Governor Huckabee, who has advocated privileges for illegal alients.
In early November, Fred proposed a comprehensive plan to reform the financially threatened Social Security system. The other major candidates have shied away from an issue thought of as a "third rail" of politics. The roundtable and press conference in which he made the proposal earned Fred over a half hour of prime time on CSPAN, and it won the praise of the Washington Post.
Then after Thanksgiving, Fred made a very detailed plan for tax relief, a plan that was applauded by the conservative Club for Growth. (Note: Gov. Huckabee has referred to the group as the Club for Greed.)
The best part of it all is that these are not just hollow election year promises, or recent conversions. You can bet on Fred because of his consistent, conservative voting record in the United States Senate, and his opinions as vocalized in years of addresses. This man has what it takes to serve as president.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Welcome to NJ Supports Fred Thompson
Welcome to NJ Supports Fred Thompson, home to the Garden State Grassroots coalition for Fred Thomspon. NJ will support Fred in the February 5, 2008 primary election and again in the 2008 general election. The trends in New Jersey are now toward the center-right. The results of the most recent election showed clearly that New Jersey is not a died-in-the-wool Blue State.
The embryonic stem cell bond referendum failed by a 53-47 margin. The results there showed that a campaign based on ethics, morality and fiscal sanity can indeed prevail here in a general election.
Atlantic County Executive Denny Levinson won a landslide election against a challenger who was a countywide elected official. The 77-23 margin, which came in a county where statewide Republicans have struggled to keep their heads above water, shows that a good candidate, coupled with good leadership and a good grassroots campaign can win in Atlantic County.
Republicans scored unexpected wins in municipal elections in Union County, and won almost every local election for mayor in Somerset County, including in the heavily Democratic Franklin Township, where Republican Brian Levine will govern as mayor while the Democrats hold all council seats. Republicans also held the Reagan Democrat towns of Manville, Bound Brook, Raritan and South Bound Brook.
Republicans swept back into control of Hamilton Township in Mercer County. This city of over 90,000 is one of the keys to winning statewide. A Republican must win Hamilton to win New Jersey.
The bottom line is that New Jersey's fifteen electoral votes are in play if the Republicans can nominate a the right candidate. And that candidate is Fred Thompson
The embryonic stem cell bond referendum failed by a 53-47 margin. The results there showed that a campaign based on ethics, morality and fiscal sanity can indeed prevail here in a general election.
Atlantic County Executive Denny Levinson won a landslide election against a challenger who was a countywide elected official. The 77-23 margin, which came in a county where statewide Republicans have struggled to keep their heads above water, shows that a good candidate, coupled with good leadership and a good grassroots campaign can win in Atlantic County.
Republicans scored unexpected wins in municipal elections in Union County, and won almost every local election for mayor in Somerset County, including in the heavily Democratic Franklin Township, where Republican Brian Levine will govern as mayor while the Democrats hold all council seats. Republicans also held the Reagan Democrat towns of Manville, Bound Brook, Raritan and South Bound Brook.
Republicans swept back into control of Hamilton Township in Mercer County. This city of over 90,000 is one of the keys to winning statewide. A Republican must win Hamilton to win New Jersey.
The bottom line is that New Jersey's fifteen electoral votes are in play if the Republicans can nominate a the right candidate. And that candidate is Fred Thompson
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