Posted at 3:31 PM on September 11, 2007
by Bob Collins
Southern. Evangelical. Conservative. Men. Meet the base for Fred Thompson. They tend to be the folks who hold sway at nominating conventions.
Moderate. Women. The Republicans keeping Rudy Giuliani afloat.
According to new CNN polling -- just released on TV, but not on the Web site yet, that's what has propelled Thompson to a near tie with Rudy Giuliani in a national political poll.
A Giuliani-Thompson/Thompson-Giuliani ticket would be rather powerful, I would think..
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