A new Gallup poll reveals that former Sen. Fred Thompson would face an uphill battle in a race for president. Right now, according to Gallup, 58% of adults know nothing about him.

Four percent correctly identified him with the TV show “Law and Order”– the same number who expressed a wish that he run for president. Another 11% identified him, correctly, as an “actor.” Just 1% said he was a “conservative/true conservative” and another 1% know that he was or is a “politician.”

Frank Newport, director of the Gallup Poll, notes today that Thompson nevertheless came in third behind Sen. John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in a recent Gallup survey on GOP favorites. But in the new poll, Gallup asked a random sample, “What comes to your mind when you think about former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson?”

The results, Newport writes, “show that a large number of Republicans don’t know much at all about Thompson. A small percentage of those who do know him say he would be a good president, but others either talk about his acting career or offer vague generalities such as ‘I like him’ or ‘Nice guy.’

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Coming in third AND people don’t know anything about you? I’d say despite the doom and gloom predictions of this article, that Fred Thompson is looking pretty darn good. Run Fred, run.