For the May 15 Republican debate (What? a second debate in two weeks?) the South Carolina Republican Party and Fox News have decreed that in order to participate, a candidate must be pulling one percent in most national polls.
Looks like that would leave Jim Gilmore, Tom Tancredo, Ron Paul, and Duncan Hunter in trouble, and maybe Sam Brownback, Tommy Thompson, and Mike Huckabee as well. Meanwhile, almost no one expects Fred Thompson, safely in the double digits in post polls, to formally announce by then.






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