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| News Date | Friday, November 23, 2007 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By: Jonathan Martin
Nov 23, 2007 09:07 AM EST
Fred Thompson prefers plain talk. So he might bridle at using a famous Winston Churchill quote to sum up his presidential campaign: "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."
But with fewer than 50 days to go until the Iowa caucuses, no piece of the primary puzzle is more perplexing than just what sort of impact the former Tennessee senator will have.
After a long-awaited and overly hyped debut, Thompson endured a gaffe-prone first few weeks. After suffering through lampooning so severe that it even broke through the pop culture bubble via "Saturday Night Live," Thompson has sought to bounce back by focusing on his true passion: policy and ideas.
Indeed, the opportunity to talk substance may be the only thing that’s keeping him in the race. Even his own aides and advisers acknowledge privately that there are days when he seems disinterested in running for president at all.
But Thompson soldiers on, and he is sure to be a factor in a contest so uncertain that no less than six candidates could play a significant role in deciding the outcome. |
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