A Bloomberg/LA Times poll last week shows Thompson narrowly ahead of Rudy Giuliani in South Carolina, with John McCain well back in third and Romney, even with an extensive advertising campaign, stuck in single digits.
And yet the hacks of the mainstream media are still opining that Giuliani is the presumptive leader for the GOP nomination.
I fully expect them, after Fred is actually nominated at the convention, to still be writing pieces to the effect that Giuliani (or McCain) is “closing the gap” with the “lazy front-runner.”

