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The irony is that, of all people, Ron Paul might make a splash. If they can muster their internet numbers to any degree, they can make a bigger blip on the radar, just like they have done in snowing the online polls.

And if I were one of the other top candidates, I would be considering giving Ron Paul a boost in doing so. Why? Because a strong showing by a fringe candidate with no chance at the real nomination would show how useless and meaningless the Ames straw poll is - thereby negating Romney's win.

Just a thought as to an indirect strategy that would cause Romney's millions spent to end up being millions wasted.

This is going to be an interesting race. There is a great article about Thompson posted on my site: http://sistrunk.net/president-2008/white-house-08-161.php

A series of national polls conducted in the last few weeks show that former Sen. Fred Thompson (Tenn.) is a force to be reckoned with in the coming fight for the 2008 Republican nomination. What exactly does a Thompson supporter look like? Let’s Parse the Polls! We’ll start with the L.A. Times/Bloomberg survey, since that data is the freshest. Thompson’s strongest subgroup in this poll was among “religious” voters, where he lead the field with 32 percent; Giuliani received 12 percent, McCain took 11 percent and Mitt Romney stood at 10 percent. (The L.A. Times pollsters define a “religious” voter this way: Someone who takes “the Bible as literal word of God who is a self-identified conservative and a ‘non-Catholic Christian.’”) Thompson also runs well among men (he and Giuliani both took 30 percent) in the L.A. Times survey and with conservative Republicans, where Thompson was essentially tied with Giuliani — 26 percent to 24 percent, respectively. Eliminate all but the four leading candidates — Thompson, Giuliani, McCain and Romney — and the trend is even more clear. In that four-way race, Thompson’s lead expanded to 20 points over Giuliani among religious voters (42 percent to 22 percent), while his lead among conservative Republicans extended to nine (34 percent to 25 percent). And among men, Thompson remained in a virtual dead heat with Giuliani. Those numbers are backed up by the internals in the Post-ABC poll, where Thompson tended to run stronger among those who identified themselves as conservatives than among self-identified moderates, and better among men than women. Thompson’s two strongest demographic groups in the Post-ABC poll were married men, where he took 19 percent support (6 points higher than his overall showing among the general GOP electorate) and among people with a college degree, where he also received 19 percent support. All of the numbers seem to bear out the conventional wisdom surrounding Thompson’s candidacy — that he is the most electable conservative in the race

Now about Huckabee. He is starting to get traction in the Media (Mainly because of the debates).

Some positve things Huckabee needs to happen.

Raise 1 million in this quarter.
Finish second or third in the Iowa straw poll
Get Dobson, Land, and other Southern Baptist evangelist to endorse him
Avoid the issue of raising taxes
Watch the others fight

Huckabee has a slim chance of being the last man standing. He is a true dark horse.

Put his demeanor and experience with Duncan Hunter agenda and that is my perfect candidate.