Thompson Holds Onto #1 Poll Spot!

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24 September 2007

Written by: WTH Posted under Uncategorized, Fred Thompson, In the News, 2008 Elections, Polls, GOP Primary, 2008 Presidential Elections, Thompson's Record

Forbes ‘08 Tracker: September

Fred Thompson holds on to the top spot in overall appeal in the September Forbes ‘08 Tracker presidential poll, though his gap over No. 2 candidate, fellow Republican Rudy Giuliani, is narrowing as Giuliani has suddenly started gaining ground. The top Democrat remains Senator Barack Obama, though his appeal is edging off.

At the same time, Thompson has now officially announced as a candidate for president, moving from just thinking about it to actually campaigning. Contiguous with his new official status, his awareness quotient has also begun to rise. While the precentage of our sample population who were aware of Thompson and his candidacy hovered little changed over the past few months at 38% — likely the level a visible star might command who’s played Manhattan District Attorney on the NBC hit show Law & Order – this month it has edged up to 41%, though his overall appeal has been shaved by 1 percentage point to 51%. And he remains the only candidate above the 50% mark in overall appeal.

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ionthemedia said,

on September 27th, 2007 at 10:48 pm

Talk about visibility! How has Fred Thompson made it into the public eye so quickly despite his delayed entry into the presidential race? It doesn’t hurt that Newsweek (the No. 2 newsmagazine with a 3.1 million circulation in 2006) has featured him in 17 articles (including a cover story) over the last 12 months. That’s seven more than any other Republican candidate during that time!
Thanks to the magazine’s nitty-gritty reporting on Thompson’s red truck, the public now knows the question of whether or not he is “southern enough” is a non-issue. A couple of real issues that concern Stinkyjournalism.org: the debate about possible FCC equal airtime violations and a worrisome partnership between the Washington Post Company and NBC.
Stinkyjournalism.org has a full report raising some red flags on media coverage of the red-state candidate—including a music video by The Thompson twins, who might just have as big of a crush on Fred as Newsweek does.