Note: I’ve been sitting on this video all day, waiting for it to be posted on youtube, but since it hasn’t and is starting to be picked up on various news sites, and our server doesn’t embed google videos, I figured I’d go ahead and post the link directly to the Hoover site where you can view it.
This is one of the better interviews I’ve seen with Senator Thompson since his reemergence from political exile.? Given at the Hoover Institute on June 11, Thompson gives insight into his background, his ideas, and some of the major problems that he sees as threats.? The interview runs fifteen minutes and the interviewer lets Thompson expand on his answers, as opposed to the lightning rounds that most who are not familiar with him are coming to know him by.
Watch it here.
Update:? According to Fox News Carl Cameron and Brit Hume, Thompson is on track to raise 10 million dollars in June alone.? He is current donation total per hour is $24,000.? Here’s the link to the report on Special Report with Brit Hume.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
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June 13th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
New NBC/WSJ poll out. Good for Fred, Romney, Rudy. Bad for McCain.
Rudy 29
Fred 20
Romney 14
McCain 14
Newt not polled
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/070613_NBC-WSJ_Release.pdf
June 13th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Tommy,
I promise to be a little nicer to Fred. But, I think Fred has been pretty much beena candidate since mid-April. With all the talk of behind the scenes work and secret endorsements and Fred playing the game I think he pretty much should be expected to raise something respectable. Maybe not as much as the others, but he been milking his time for all its worth.
DavidB,
How is a poll where Rudy Drops four good news? Maybe cause he’s in first place still? I don’t think its bad news, just not good news. I still say national polls are relatively not so important till mid september. State polls a little more so, but in a different way.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
After seeing polls like this, I really don’t see how ARG has any credibility when they always put McCain way ahead of where every other poll puts him.
Also, Rudy is actually down from the last NBC/WSJ poll. It was from mid-April so the fact that he is only down a four is probably welcome news in the Giuliani campaign. Also McCain is down 8, Romney up 2 and Fred up 3.
Interestingly, the number of people not for one of the big 4 increased from 16% in April to 23% here. That is good news for Fred and Mitt since both are trending up and that leaves more people available to catch Rudy.
Those 23% will probably decide the race (when McCain drops out, whether later this year or after SC, his 14% will also be very important going to Feb. 5th) Traditionally the majority of those voters go overwhelmingly to the winner of Iowa, NH and SC. Those are the people Romney and Thompson are counting on to pass Rudy.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Perico, Thanks for the video on Senator Thompson. He has it exactly right on Iraq. It is not just what has happened there. We must win. Anything less will impact our country for generations to come. Senator Thompson is only going to go up in the polls as people have a chance to listen to him.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Thanks Ginny
June 13th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Jason,
According to Carl Cameron, 10 million expected this month alone, without the fundraisers. Not a bad way to start off, considering he’s only raised money online. Thanks for promising to be a little nicer.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
That would be an amazing number if he does. But His first two days yielded I believe 360,000 with 240 from his first. IF we averaged it out at 130,000 a day he would ten million would take him somewhere around 80-90 days. So he might have it, and if he does WOW. But it might be perhaps because he sending regular donations through the internet.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Sorry my math is off it would be an average of 180 a day which would take closer to 55 days.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Apparently he’s been bringing in around 240k a day… all of this is coming from Brit Hume and Carl Caeroon, who I usually trust on political matters, so take it for what it’s worth. Also, I’m not sure if these are projected with a drop off, which I’m sure they’d have to be.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
oops. 24k
Here’s the link to the video added to the original post.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Well he’d have to average 240K to get there. His first two days where at 340 total, 240 the first day. So I would be surprised, but impressed.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
If Thompson gets more money than McCain, then McCain is DOA. He cannot continue in 4th place. Even if Thompson is close, that signals bad news.
What are peoples expectations? 30 June will be big, i’m guessing Romney in front, Rudy a little bit behind, McCain an improvement but still behind Rudy, and Thompson closing in 4th.
The rest will struggle to get to a million each.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
I’m sorry guys, but I still think he’s all fluff. I didn’t hear one concrete idea, and I was bored to TEARS.
He’s boring. Like…really boring. Almost the-other-Thompson boring.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
I’ll do a post on his web team. They’re a pretty tough bunch. I’ll get one up tomarrow, since it’s about to hit midnight here and I gotta get some rest. Had a few long days in a row.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Jaype, they won’t release any official numbers for Thompson until the end of the 3rd quarter, since he’s only been raising money for the last 2 weeks, officially.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
He doesn’t have to report so we won’t know anything about his numbers until September. However, I think most of the money going to Fred was going to stay on the sidelines no matter what, at least for a while. He isn’t taking money that one of the other candidates could have gotten this quarter.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Also, his Roe v. Wade answer is ridiculous in my opinion. Bad law, awful law? Yes.
Worse than Dred Scott? Hardly. Let’s get serious, here.
And has anyone else noticed how he doesn’t make eye contact 80% of the time? He looks away, then thinks he’s being pointed by looking back at the interviewer. The effect is a stark look of disengagement. I just don’t understand why people find him charismatic.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Tommy #16,
Does that mean that we can expect $10 million rumors to fly unchecked by any public disclosure? Smart way to give the impression of momentum…
June 13th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
OOPS!
Since 1963. My bad.
June 13th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Yeah I am just watching it, he has some good points. Nothing I disagree with. But I just think Romney will be a much more effective spokesperson for the cause and frankly has a better understanding of much of the issues.
I think Fred is a conservative, just not someone who can sell it en masse. His speaking skills really appeal to those who liked him already, it doesn’t win over skeptics.
June 14th, 2007 at 6:21 am
I disagree Kevin. I thought Thompson was borderline awful in his Leno interview, but he was quite good here. He sounded smart, fairly substantiative, and only mildly dead. I also disagree about Roe and Dred. In terms of pure law, I think Roe was a far worse decision. Remember, Dred Scott was notably bad mainly because of the dicta Taney inserted. Namely, that blacks couldn’t ever possibly be citizens under the formulation of the constitution. The actual decision, that Scott needed to returned to slavery, was actually fairly well in keeping with established legal precedent, and originalist interpretation of the constitution. Roe was just, from beginning to end, invented out of thin air.
June 14th, 2007 at 8:06 am
I think the difference is their appeal in general. Fred’s style is going to appeal to those in the south, while Mitt’s style is appealing to those in the northern areas. Mitt’s fast talking style usually flies right over the head of many southerners, while Fred’s drawl and think before you speak style knocks it out of the park everytime down hear, while putting northerners to sleep.
June 14th, 2007 at 9:08 am
Tommy,
I think you nailed it on the head.
June 14th, 2007 at 9:43 am
The Problem is, while Thompson may be able to do well in interviews where he is given a lot of time to expand on answers, that is not what campaigning is about. The Debates, Press Conferences, and even half of the T.V. interviews he will do are very quick – and if Thompson cannot do well at those, I don’t think he can keep (much less increase) his current support, at least not with other, more charismatic candidates in the field.