Maybe Fred's just in comatose for the moment

by Jerome Armstrong, Thu Jan 24, 2008 at 12:35:57 PM EST

So I went to try and figure out what happened in the LA caucus yesterday for the Republicans, and it's a bit of a mess. Nevermind though, the media and John McCain have declared him the winner.

Regardless, it appears the order was Uncommitted Pro-Life, McCain, Paul, Romney, and others. What was interesting was this take that Fred Thompson would have won the LA caucus had he not dropped out a few hours earlier:

About 90 percent of the pro-family slate was actually Thompson supporters. If Fred were to jump back into the race, he would almost certainly pick up all 47 of Louisiana's delegates (the whole point of LA's complicated system was to have an early vote while still not losing half our delegates like all the other early states have). That would put him AHEAD of McCain in the delegate count and only narrowly trailing Romney.
Then, this very intriguing article, Who Said Freddy's Dead?




Tags: 2008 election, Fred Thompson (all tags)

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obviously he plans to be the consensus (none / 0)

choice at the brokered convention.  Some stealth delegates wouldn't hurt.


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by John DE on Thu Jan 24, 2008 at 12:44:40 PM EST

Fred never wanted to work hard for the nom. (none / 0)

He wanted the nomination handed to him.

But maybe he learned a trick from McCain: Play dead. He's a natural.


John Edwards 2008
by MeanBoneII on Thu Jan 24, 2008 at 01:43:09 PM EST

Re: Maybe Fred's just in comatose for the moment (none / 0)

Louisiana is a primary state.  I don't believe these results determine any national delegates.


"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman
by Steve M on Thu Jan 24, 2008 at 01:45:59 PM EST

Exactly (none / 0)

If one candidate doesn't get 50% of more of the vote, all of the delegates are unpledged.  And even if the person gets the vote, I think that only like 22 or something of the delegates (out of 47) are actually pledged.


"No government has the right to tell its citizens whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody." - Rita Mae Brown
by auboy2006 on Thu Jan 24, 2008 at 01:50:44 PM EST
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Re: Maybe Fred's just in comatose for the moment (none / 0)

Leave it to LA to concoct a system so convoluted that no one even knows who won.

As far a Fred goes, he is low hanging fruit in a general election.  Pray for him to be the choice at a brokered convention.  Dems could win 40 states or more in November.


NJ Hussein Independent
by NJIndependent on Thu Jan 24, 2008 at 02:18:10 PM EST


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