{"id":4053,"date":"2007-12-08T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/thompson-goes-for-broke-in-iow.html"},"modified":"2007-12-08T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T13:17:00","slug":"thompson-goes-for-broke-in-iow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/thompson-goes-for-broke-in-iow.html","title":{"rendered":"Thompson goes for broke in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is about time<\/a>!<\/p>\n

FORMER TENNESSEE SENATOR Fred Thompson has decided to take his campaign and virtually all of its resources to Iowa in an all-or-nothing attempt to register a strong showing in the caucuses here on January 3. “We’re getting ready to make this not only our second home, but our first home,” he told a small gathering of supporters at the Polk County Convention Center on Friday night. Thompson and his wife Jeri chatted with the crowd before making their way through the exhibits at the Iowa Farm Bureau’s annual meeting in downtown Des Moines.
\nBeginning Monday, December 17, Thompson will launch a bus tour that will take him throughout the state. From the beginning of that trip through caucus night, Thompson will essentially live in Iowa, taking only a one-day trip out of the state to celebrate Christmas at his home in Virginia.
\n“Iowa is critical to our campaign, and it may in fact be everything to our campaign,” says one Thompson official. “If we don’t do what we need to do in Iowa, it will be tough to compete effectively down the road<\/span>.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As we can see from his slippage in the polls in SC and FL. He should have done this a month ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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