Decision 2008: End of the Month Presidential Power Rankings #37

Here are September "End of the Month" Rankings.

Republicans:

1st: Rudy Giuliani (steady) His surprsing rsie on Mitt Romney in NH keeps him on top. He continues his dominating 7-10 point national lead in polls and remains this months frontrunner.

2nd: Mitt Romney (falling) His support in Iowa and NH as well as overall support is starting to drop. We could see a new 2nd place finisher next week. Romney has been in our #1 or 2 spot for the past 3 months.

3rd Tied: John McCain (rising) Most Pundits are eating their words when they said the McCain campaign was dead. He is onw only 5 points from the lead in both NH and SC and tied for 2nd in National Polls. McCain is now confident enough that his campaign willl start airing ads in NH and soon South Carolina.

3rd Tied: Fred Thompson (falling) His announcement bounce has died, and qucikly and he is back to his stable 4th-2nd polls in early states and 2nd nationwide. Thompson seems not be working too hard for the nomination and it is costing him dearly.

5th: Mike Huckabee (steady) Iowa is the only state he is polling above 5% which isn't a good sign for this campaign. He still leads the 2nd tier, but isn't quite 1st tier material.

6th: Newt Gingirch (rising) New buzz is out the Newt could annouce his campaign for president as early as next week. Gingirch seems to be moving closer to making a decision. If he does deicde to run he has a alot of ground to make up.

7th: Sam Brownback (steady) Brownback just isn't getting support anywhere except for his home of Kansas. His must-win Iowa isn't even giving him 3%. He may have to concentrate on 1 contest namely Iowa to even get in the high single digits.

8th: Ron Paul (steady) His popularity among young voters and the odd Republicans gives him broad support. If he doesn't do well here in the GOP look for the Libertarians to beg for him to come back.

9th: Tom Tancredo (steady) Congressman Tancredo is already planning his re-election campaign and not his Presidential General Election campaign. The signs are all over the wall. He isn't going anywher, but Colorado.

10th: Duncan Hunter (steady) Hunter seems to be traveling the country doing whatever he can to attract votes, but no one seems to be interested.

It seems as if this will be Hunter's last campaign.

11th: Alan Keyes (steady) Just recently joined the race and several don't even realize it. Keyes was invited to the All-American Forum so maybe just maybe he can get some support but hsi past 4 campaigns hvae ended no where near victory.

12th: John Cox (steady) We have decided to include Cox since he just got invited to the MSNBC GOP debate. Cox is the most successful non-major candidate running and the most conservative.

Democrats:

1st: Hillary Clinton (rising) Hillary now leads in every early state and nationwide according to recent polling. In fact I believe if today were Nov. 4th, 2008 Hillary would be elected president. Its along way to go and hopefully things will change. Note: Hillary has always recieved the #1 spot from Politics-Central.

2nd: Barack Obama (steady) Obama's campaign is losing steam and losing it fast! He has to get in gear to beat the Hillary train. The only way he can win is if he beats Hillary in Iowa.

3rd: John Edwards (falling) Hs support is dwindling very quickly. His efforts our now maninly concentrated on winning Iowa. Without it the campaign is done.

4th: Bill Richardson (steady) Richardson continues to show poor debate performances. He really needs to improve. Look for hom to shoot for VP soon.

5th: Joe Biden (steady) Biden usually always holds this spot, because the rest of tier just stays about where it is.

6th: Chris Dodd (steady) Dodd has the experience, but he is just too unknown. His skill at debating does give him the very little support he does have.

7th: Dennis Kucinich (steady) His peace and anti-war antics give him attention but not support. This campaign will likely be like his 2004 one.

8th: Mike Gravel (steady) Gravel is the favorite at debates, but he is too unknown and we all know he wont go anywhere.