1. Mitt Romney –32 percent
2. Mike Huckabee – 18 percent
3. Sam Brownback – 15 percent
4. Tom Tancredo – 14 percent
5. Ron Paul – 9 percent
6. Tommy Thompson — 7 percent
7. Fred Thompson – 1 percent
8. Rudolph W. Giuliani – 1 percent
9. Duncan Hunter – 1 percent
10. John McCain (less than 1 percent)
11. John Cox (less than 1 percent)
Is a 9th place finish for our man something to discourage us? Well certainly it’s not what we hoped for, but there are many reasons that we are not out of this thing yet, not by a longshot.
The reasons:
1. Hunter has been busy in Congress working on important, and I would say “heroic” measures for our country. The bill to end the NAFTA superhighway, and the bill to free Ramos and Compean. He has not had the money to put much of a campaign on the ground in his stead, and has only been campaigning a week since Congress went into recess. He now has the time to do what is needed to start pulling ahead.
2. The blogosphere has lit up for Hunter. If you recall, John Hawkins of Right Wing News.com dubbed Hunter as second most popular on the Internet. This is how the buzz surrounding Fred Thompson began. With our hard work, we can carry it from the Internet into the real world.
3. Voting participation in the poll this year was half of what it was at the last election, indicating possibly that many people are still greatly undecided.
4. This poll is about money for the most part. Romney put hundreds of thousands into this poll, as did Brownback (which explains his surprise success.. it surprised me greatly). Huckabee did well because he had more time on his hands. Hunter had little to no time and decided not to use much money. If I’m correct, this puts him in a financially better position than Tancredo and Brownback.
However, we need a change of strategy and motivation. Duncan Hunter is the man our country needs for our survival, and the GOP needs him to beat the Democrats. More thoughts on this will come from me in coming days. We can do it, because we HAVE to do it. Let’s join together, and do this thing.
But before I complete my thoughts later in the week, let me encourage EVERYONE to start on the basics. Get a bumper sticker from the campaign and PUT IT ON YOUR CAR. Furthermore, get a t-shirt (or make one if you can’t afford a 30$ donation to the campaign to get one), and request yard signs. Let’s make a goal to put at least 3 or 4 signs in each of our respective communities by the end of the week. Plans will be in the work (if contacts can be found) for a sign blitz within a couple of weeks.
We also have the upcoming Texas straw poll coming up.
The Hunt has just begun!
(I apologize for being behind in updating. There are many things I have read that need reported here, however constraints have made it hard to keep up at the moment. I will be back in the game later this week, God-willing. )
