Chuck Yeager, the primary basis for Tom Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff, has endorsed the candidacy of California Rep. Duncan Hunter.
Hunter’s campaign has not generated much buzz since he announced the launching of his exploratory committee in October. In fact, Rep. Hunter placed last in a recent KCCI poll conducted by Research 2000 from December 18 through December 20 in Iowa of 400 likely Republican caucus voters.
The California lawmaker received zero points in the poll and placed behind two senators that lost re-election campaigns — Rick Santorum (PA), lost in a landslide, and George Allen (VA) — and one outgoing governor that recently said “No tengo futuro” (Jeb Bush, FL).
Although Hunter, a staunch opponent of immigration, literally couldn’t do worse, could have whatever support he may enjoy undercut by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) as the two duke it out for the Bill Cutting vote. However, a possible Tancredo candidacy, strangely, did not merit inclusion. (Others snubbed: Senator Chuck Hagel, of Nebraska, and Governor Mike Huckabee, of Alabama Arkansas.)
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The Bill Cutting vote is big in early primaries (IA, SC) so I’m not going to rule Hunter out early (I won’t rule anyone out yet). And on a long enough timeline, polling outfits will eventually get things right, though with a field wide open behind presumptive nominee John McCain you don’t want to place last too many times…
Left by Matt Browner Hamlin
December 22, 2006 at 4:02pm