Sunday, April 15, 2007

Newsmax poll on Fred Thompson....


1. NewsMax Poll: Americans Want Fred Thompson in ’08
An Internet poll sponsored by NewsMax.com reveals that Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of Fred Thompson running for president in 2008.
Our “Should Fred Thompson Run for President” poll of nearly 100,000 people also disclosed that the former senator from Tennessee and “Law & Order” star would trounce all leading Republican candidates in a primary.
The results are surprising considering that Thompson has not even announced that he would run for the White House next year. But he has begun assembling the core of a campaign team in preparation for a possible run.
NewsMax will provide the results of this poll to major media and share them with radio talk-show hosts across the country.
Here are the poll questions and results:
1) What is your overall opinion of Fred Thompson?
Favorable: 94 percentUnfavorable: 2 percentNo Opinion: 4 percent
2) Is Fred Thompson your candidate for president in 2008?
Yes: 77 percentNo: 23 percent
3) In the following field, who is your 2008 candidate?
John McCain: 1.66 percentCondi Rice: 2.64 percentMike Huckabee: .99 percentMiss Romney: 4.14 percentRudy Giuliani: 7.53 percentFred Thompson: 62.54 percentTom Tancredo: 2.78 percentRon Paul: 1.25 percentNewt Gingrich: 12.25 percentDuncan Hunter: 1.23 percentSam Brownback: .97 percentOther: 1.99 percent
4) In a Republican primary of the following, who would you vote for?
Rudy Giuliani: 7 percentJohn McCain: 2 percentNewt Gingrich: 13 percentFred Thompson: 78 percent
5) If the 2008 President race was between Fred Thompson & Hillary Clinton, who would you vote for?
Fred Thompson: 98.7 percentHillary Clinton: 1.3 percent

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