June 07, 2007

Pollster Frank Luntz on Fred Thompson

From a debate-night appearance on H&C:

We took about seven minutes of Thompson's interview on [Hannity's] show that [Fred Thompson] had done a few weeks earlier, and on Fox News Sunday.

It's incredible.

Even though he's not running, he really is the six-million-pound gorilla in this race, and it's not because of his personal... they all say he's a good communicator, but that's not why they're supporting him. Thompson gets about 15% in most Republican polls because of his ideology, they see him as being the most conservative. I'll give you one statistic and then we're gonna roll a little bit of sound. He has the highest awareness to support ratio of any candidate on the Republican or Democratic side. About half of Americans, half of Republicans know of him enough to talk about him and he's got roughly 15%, 13-15%. No candidate comes close to that ratio...

It's absolutely incredible.

Video at HotAir (toward the end of the clip).

Posted by: Ragnar at 02:45 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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1 Ragnar, I think you have a winner!                       USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at June 07, 2007 05:27 AM (2OHpj)

2 What Thompson strikes me as is a "grown ass man." Someone who has their crap together and is willing to take responsibility for themselves. It seems such a contrast to Bush at this point, who seems to have given up on so much (I'll give him credit for holding the line on Iraq, though). It's a shame because he had the potential to be a great President and he let it slip through his fingers.

Posted by: David Marcoe at June 07, 2007 05:33 AM (dJ/b4)

3 Thompson gets about 15% in most Republican polls because of his ideology, they see him as being the most conservative.

Yup.  They can say what they want about Thompson; that he hasn't accomplished anything, that he's not a hard worker, that he's an empty suit, blah blah blah.  Yet he's the most conservative. nuff said as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at June 07, 2007 10:23 AM (8e/V4)

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