Tommy Thompson Bails Out

Tommy ThompsonAnd so it begins. The bottom tier candidates are starting to drop out as they realize that support and money are hard to come by when your chances are slim:

He says, "my campaign was completely shocked. We absolutely thought we were coming in second [at the Iowa Straw Poll]. We had no doubt in our minds. The worst we thought we'd come in was third and it didn't happen that way. Something happened between the 50-yard line and the goal line. They pulled a reverse on us and we didn't see it coming."

So you decided to punt. Enough of the football metaphors already. Tommy Thompson never stood a chance as he has nothing to make him stand out. Tom Tancredo has illegal immigration (and is still struggling), Giuliani has a history of leadership the country knows and Fred Thompson is famous and was a good senator. Tommy Thompson was a non-factor from the beginning.

Really, how could Thompson's campaign be "shocked"? He was polling low everywhere except Iowa and if he did do well at the straw poll, he would've been pummeled in the primaries anyway.

Expect others on both sides to throw in the towel soon as donors assess the landscape and decide who they want to throw their hard-earned shekels at. Come January, I expect six candidates on both sides to still be in it with two or three at most having any shot at winning.

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