Radio Iowa’s Kay Henderson interviewed former Sen. Fred Thompson today, and she posted a partial transcript to her blog.
She asked him about Iran, and his answer included the statement, “I’m afraid that the Soviet Union & China are not ever going to do anything that’s going to hurt them that badly but we need to [...]

Last night, the Iowa Christian Alliance held a dinner and invited former Sen. Fred Thompson, who came to the dinner as part of his second swing through Iowa as a presidential candidate. Thompson was told he would not have an opportunity to speak at the dinner, only to attend.
Iowa Independent’s Jay Wagner described how [...]

Democrats in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington, DC, rushed to pressure their presidential candidates to pledge not to campaign in any other states planning to hold primaries before February 5. Republicans did not, perhaps knowing that such a pledge would hurt Rudy Giuliani, the Republican candidate most likely to win a [...]

The Sioux City Journal’s Bret Heyworth notices that former Sen. Fred Thompson’s daughter may be playing the role of a prop on the former actor’s nascent-but-long-awaited presidential campaign:
Forty minutes into the event, Thompson’s 3-year-old daughter, Hayden, ran onto the convention center stage. Some in the crowd let out a heartfelt ‘aawwww.’ Thompson told Hayden, “Bless [...]

After announcing his candidacy on Jay Leno’s show last night, Fred Thompson flew to Des Moines, IA, with his wife Jeri and their two very young children.  This afternoon a few miles away from me, former Sen. Thompson held his first public event as a declared presidential candidate.
So how did it go?  I was not [...]

New poll numbers from the American Research Group reveal significant improvement in former Gov. Mike Huckabee’s standing in Iowa, bouncing to 14% support after the Iowa Republican Straw Poll earlier this month.  ARG’s polling indicated that Huckabee had the support of only 1% of Iowa Republican caucus-goers last month.
While the ARG’s likely caucus-goer screen is [...]

Most media types don’t get the Ames Straw Poll in the least. They describe it as an election, as a test of candidate strength, as a predictor of how the Iowa Caucuses would turn out if they were held today, etc. Almost every detail you have heard about it on cable news is [...]

According to Kay Henderson of Radio Iowa, who was on the Straw Poll call with Chuck Laudner, ED of the Iowa GOP, Fred Thompson will be on the Ames Straw Poll ballot next month. She doesn’t lead with it, but it is definitely the lede:
The Straw Poll Ballot: Sam Brownback, John Cox, Rudy [...]