Wow. Fred’s Working Iowa Hard.
by Patrick Ruffini :: December 22nd, 2007 7:54 pmI have all the candidates’ public schedules loaded into my Google Calendar. Take a look at Fred’s schedule in the last week:
Lazy Fred is no more. The dude’s had 5 events in Iowa each day the last week. Some of those events were canceled because of a blizzard today, others received less than rave reviews, but you can’t argue that Fred is confounding the pundits with a bruising schedule when it matters most. That kind of thing counts in Iowa, and as a result of that and the inevitable Huckaslide, I’m predicting he places a surprisingly strong third and stays in the race.
What about the other candidates? Not all of them post their schedules online (or have them published by the New York Times which makes them available in iCal format), so it’s impossible to do a full comparison. But the max has been 3-4 events per day, with Hillary Clinton seeming to keep the next busiest (publicly viewable) schedule.
And most of the other candidates are dividing their time between two or more early states, diluting the Iowa impact. For instance, consistent with his diehard focus on the later states, Rudy Giuliani will be in Florida next Wednesday.
Memo to the campaigns: yet another benefit of posting all your public events in Web 2.0-friendly formats is the chance that some obscure blogger might stumble upon it and use the information to take a second look at your candidacy just 12 days out from Iowa.
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I really wish Fred had more of a chance to win. Sadly I feel he’s squandered what momentum he had, but of course that’s old news. If he had been doing this from the time he got in he may have been running away with this thing. That also might just be wishful thinking on my part.
Fred did not squander his momentum. He wants to win on his terms, not as a trained seal of the Mainstream Media. He is the only electable conservative in the race. The MSM ignores him because they don’t want him. Vote based on your convictions not misguided fear of not voting for the winner.
Nobody attacks Fred based on his platform, only on how “poorly” he has run his campaign. If you want panderers, cheerleaders, flip-floppers, nuts, and liberals, vote for the rest of the field. Otherwise, vote for Fred and make this country great and proud once again!
Finally, I stumbled upon a blog that has real people showing passion for what they believe. Fred Thompson is a great actor and I think based on what I keep reading, that is what his supporters want. They are hoping he can act like a President who cares about his people. The problem is that Fred is a Washington Lobbyist and even as recently as September, was talking about how strong the US economy looks. Thankfully, for the first time in history, we all have equal access to news as it happens and we can see that the DC insiders have made their choice and are trying to make ours. Because of this, millions upon millions of us will voice our discontent with our vote, a vote for real change in America, getting back to the Constitution. Ron Paul will be our next President and Fred Thompson will play him on TV.
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