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And Now The Waiting Game Begins...

January 03, 2008 6:59 PM

ABC News' Christine Byun Reports: There's nothing left but the waiting for Fred Thompson.

Concluding a 17-day bus tour in Sioux City on Thursday, Thompson, R-Tenn., thanked the audience of roughly 70 and proclaimed, "I need your help, together we can do some great things for this country."

Thompson, who has visited Sioux City four times since announcing his candidacy in September, started his speech by joking that "starting tomorrow, all the politicians and all the news media will be out of here, it will be safe for all ordinary Iowans to walk the streets of Iowa again."

Thompson closed his Iowa caucus campaigning by stressing his record and experience, emphasizing his consistency.

"What I believed then, I believe today. Who I was then, I am today, that's who I will be tomorrow," Thompson said, repeating a heavily-used stump speech line. "What you see is what you get. I don't
dance to any other man's tune. I have never been accused of changing my political position or flip-flopping in order to address a particular need to win an election."

After his event, Thompson told a local reporter that it's in "the hands of the good Lord and the people of Iowa, and I'll be perfectly happy when those results come in."

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