It's showtime for Republican Thompson in Iowa
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa  - For Republican Fred Thompson, the former actor turned reluctant politician, the first few months of his floundering bid to be U.S. president were just a warm-up act. Now it is showtime.
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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says Fred Thompson, who is expected to jump into the 2008 race next month, will have trouble meeting expectations about his candidacy.
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ON THE BUS IN IOWA, Sept. 7 -- On his second full day of official campaigning, Fred Thompson spoke at length about his health and his opinions about Iraq, Social Security, homosexuality and abortion, both in an interview with reporters and at events around the state.
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A new study of campaign  2008 coverage finds that Illinois Democrat Barack Obama and  former "Law & Order" actor Fred Thompson, a Republican, have  enjoyed much more positive coverage than their rivals.
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Republicans Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson topped a field of six presidential candidates at an Iowa party fundraiser Saturday evening, with Huckabee saying other candidates criticism of him shows his bid for the nomination is gaining steam.
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Fred Thompson, an actor and former senator who has not formally entered the 2008 White House race, leads Republican presidential contenders for the first time, according to a Rasmussen poll released on Tuesday.
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Fred D. Thompson will offer himself as a down-home antidote to Washington politics in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, running a campaign out of Nashville while promising leadership on a conservative agenda that will appeal to his party's base, advisers said yesterday.
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Republican Fred Thompson, who likes to cast himself in the role of Washington outsider, has a long history as a political insider who earned more than $1 million lobbying the federal government.
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For Wyoming Republicans, a decision to jump ahead of other states in the presidential nominating process has paid off: former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson is coming to town.
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Former Senator Fred D. Thompson hopes that his role as an investigator of government wrongdoing will propel him to the presidency.
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Presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Thursday he's a Republican who has never strayed from his conservative beliefs, a jab meant to highlight differences with chief rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney.
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Tonightâs Republican debate features eight declared candidates, but the first question was about the candidate missing from the debate, Fred Thompson.
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Fred Thompson officially entered a wide-open Republican presidential race Thursday, vowing to invigorate a dispirited GOP and promising to thwart another Clinton from capturing the presidency.
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Bloomberg - Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Former Senator Fred Thompson, after months of flirting with a possible presidential run, will enter the 2008 Republican nomination contest next week with a Sept. 6 Internet announcement and five-day campaign tour through Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, his organization said today.
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Things must be going well for prospective presidential candidate Fred Thompson because even his ex-wife and former girlfriends are endorsing him.
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Rasmussen Reports - With former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson taking his first formal steps towards a Presidential run and the immigration debate creating challenges for Arizona Senator John McCain, the race for the Republican Presidential nomination has an entirely different look this week.
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As a veteran actor, Fred Dalton Thompson knows something about entering a stage. It's all about the buildup. The former Tennessee senator plans to announce his official entry into the Republican presidential contest on Thursday. But he'll pique interest first on Wednesday with an ad aired during a GOP presidential debate in New Hampshire that Thompson will otherwise skip.