In 1952, Eisenhower ran for president. Running his campaign from France, working with NATO he never once stepped foot in the United States. Why did he have such a good showing? Well the answers simple, his campaign managers turned his candidacy into entertainment making Eisenhower look interesting. Eisenhower had a military record and had a large name recognition facto going for him. This combined with hitting lots of issues over and over again gave Eisenhower an edge. Eisenhower was, we will use this term sparingly, electable. His sheer popularity carried him through the race.
Now we have Fred Thompson,who has hardly been in NH and has some entertainment value seeing as he is an actor on the hit show Law and Order. Will this same scenario likely to occur again? I don't think so. Since that time NH has evolved in political awareness. Our primary in the past was insignificant but now in the lime light our significance has increased as has the political awareness of our citizens. NH citizens expect more of the candidates which Thompson is not giving and this will cripple him more by giving him bad press coming out of NH and lead to a decrease in funding in later states.
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