potential campaigners make a similar decision that they need to get in the race so they can begin to raise money, the necessary funds for these contests that come so quickly next year, and also get themselves aorgd in those early states. jon: gary johnson is the former new mexico governor he officially announced he s actively in the race, he wants to win it. what does that do for a guy who doesn t have great name recognition. not a whole heck of a lot. take a look at this. i didn t put any names with it because names don t matter. this is the gallop poll in april. look at that 16, 16, 13, 10, 6, 6, 4 there is no difference between the top four and the next six candidates. they are all essentially deaden and anybody could win this contest. by comparison in march of 1999 it was 52% for george w. bush, 30% for elizabeth doyle and 9% for dan quayle.
of 1999 had 3% in the polls. which was john mccain and march of 1999. bill: everybody knows mccain. very hard for people to get known. very hard for them to raise money. we can t say with. with all due respect mccain was not known. bill: everybody knew john mccain. in 1999 no he wasn t. bill: yes, he was. barack obama at this point had 26%. bill: i don t want to spend a lot of time on that? but i will say that in my opinion as, you know, the king of cable news here, it s not easy to raise money, not in tim paw lent is how do i get known right now. smart guy. you have in the mix grenades. you have donald trump who is, you you know, shaking everything up. you have michele bachmann, you have sarah palin. these are very flamboyant, people like get a lot of attention quickly and could do a lot of damage in the republican
of 1999 had 3% in the polls. which was john mccain and march of 1999. bill: everybody knows mccain. very hard for people to get known. very hard for them to raise money. we can t say with. with all due respect mccain was not known. bill: everybody knew john mccain. in 1999 no he wasn t. bill: yes, he was. barack obama at this point had 26%. bill: i don t want to spend a lot of time on that? but i will say that in my opinion as, you know, the king of cable news here, it s not easy to raise money, not in tim paw lent is how do i get known right now. smart guy. you have in the mix grenades. you have donald trump who is, you you know, shaking everything up. you have michele bachmann, you have sarah palin. these are very flamboyant, people like get a lot of attention quickly and could do a lot of damage in the republican
these numbers. march of 1999, 12 years ago, when the republican presidential contest was firming up, 52 percent of bush had 52 percent of the primary, elizabeth dole second at 20, dan quayle at nine and nine other candidates including john mccain had a combined total of 15 percent, mccain had 3 percent. there was a front runner and his name was bush. there is no frontrunner this time around. everybody is the better known candidates are glumped together in the top 30s. the final thing is look, we ve got 11 months to go and this race is going to gel like the democrats did in 2007. it wasn t until literally the jefferson-jackson dinner, i think it was december of 20 07, that barack obama started to look like a big player with his dramatic speech to the dinner in demoines. jon: also karl, i want to turn your attention to this argument going on on capitol hill, it s all about an exchange involving the secretary of health and
we re back with a final note from our series in confronting china opinion new details about china s first-ever stealth fighter jet. they probably got the technology from us. the war, the air war over the balkans just got a lot more dangerous for the allies. some vintage brian williams. the plane, a u.s. nighthawk stealth jet. shot down in march of 1999 during the nato air war over serbia. the ap reporting chinese against agents flooded into serbia after the attack, bought debris from local farmers and sent it back to china secretly. the chinese reportedly used those parts to reverse engineer the stealth technology, fast forward a decade in change, thing nighthawk long gone but