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...Barack Obama (D-Ill.) wouldn’t have consistently been ahead of the veteran senator (and actual veteran) Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the polls since April. In fact, aside from underperformance by the still nationally unknown Governor Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) and Senator Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), all of the Democrats and all of the Republicans perform fairly consistently, regardless of who they are matched up against...
...Among Republicans, opinions diverge as well. John McCain would support a cap-and-trade system to control emissions, and opposes drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Giuliani and Thompson oppose a cap-and-trade program and support drilling in ANWR. McCain and Giuliani support embryonic stem-cell research while Romney and Thompson do not. While Romney said America “ought to double Guantanamo,” McCain would close it immediately...
...pity for his aides and supporters is that Thompson has of late been living up to at least some of the expectations that surrounded his potential candidacy through the spring and summer. Surprising many skeptics, he has issued substantive policy proposals on reforming Social Security, dealing with immigration and enlarging the U.S. military. The proposals themselves have been uneven; as my colleague Mark Thompson has written, Senator Thompson's plans to expand the size of the Army to 775,000 troops and to mandate that the Pentagon's budget be set at 4.6% of GDP are both problematic...
...Thompson also received the coveted endorsement of the National Right to Life Committee, which gave his flagging campaign a welcome shot of adrenaline and rekindled the debate about who among the Republicans is a true conservative. It also reinforced what has become one of the truisms of the G.O.P. race this cycle - that the social conservative movement has splintered to the point where it may no longer be a movement at all. The ABC/Washington Post Iowa poll showing Huckabee's surge into a first-place tie with Romney was taken after Thompson received the NRLC endorsement. Thompson's improvement...
...Thompson's numbers in Iowa have actually inched up since he started broadcasting ads in the state; in the ABC/Washington Post Iowa poll, he ranks third with 16%, slightly ahead of Giuliani. And the campaign is hoping for a similar bump in South Carolina, the state Thompson almost certainly has to win to have any chance of becoming the nominee. "This thing is wide open, everyone's numbers are soft," says one Thompson aide optimistically. But then the aide ads, "I do think this Huckabee thing is real. If Huckabee wins Iowa, that changes things dramatically...