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How Far Rudy Has Fallen
So now Rudy Giuliani is a factor. His plan until this point was to solidify his formidable support in the February 5th states by campaigning there while all of his competitors fought over Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and the rest of the early states.
That plan has most definitely not worked, thanks in large part, to John McCain. Giuliani is currently behind in the polls in, of all places, New York.
The Siena College poll [showed]... Giuliani trailed McCain by 12 percentage points, a sharp reversal from the former New York City mayor's 33-point lead over the Arizona senator in December. McCain had the support of 36 percent of New York Republicans, while Giuliani had 24 percent and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney had 10 percent.
Siena's Steven Greenberg called the latest numbers "a stunning turnaround."
That's a 45-point reversal! That's an awfully long way to fall. Things aren't any better in the rest of the tri-state area, supposedly the core of Rudy's support. He's down in Connecticut and in New Jersey. He's now losing in Pennsylvania. His Florida lead is dwindling, and he is no longer the national frontrunner.
When questioned in early November about how Giuliani's leads in all of these states might be affected by the momentum Giuliani's competitors would gain by winning early states, the Giuliani campaign said that his leads were "momentum-proof." Whoops.
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Ron Paul beat Rudy Guiliani (a media favorite) in the Iowa, Michigan, Nevada and South Carolina primaries. Considering there has been almost a total media blackout of the Paul campaign yet he continues to beat Guiliani (and several other of the Republican 'frontrunners'), that has to be a sign of either how weak Rudy is, or how strong Paul's message is.
Rudy has earned exactly what he is getting.
The "top tier" GOP candidates are not much better.
We obviously have 5 corporations telling us who we want - maybe for better profit we could get one major private equity firm like Carlyle Group to buy all five so we can set aside any pretense?
Posted by: capt on 01/21/08 at 11:30 AM Respond
Rudy will live to regret this strategy. It might have made sense around 20 years ago, but in the information age, if you're not being talked about, you aren't going to have a chance. McCain, Romney, and the other candidates are being covered by the media because they competed in the other states. Rudy waiting so long was a bad move.
Also, I love the poetic justice of Paul beating Rudy in the first states. I'll never forget his treatment of Paul in one of the debates, where Paul was critiquing our foreign policy and Rudy was being a bully, demanding that he "take it back".
Posted by: Jeff on 01/21/08 at 11:52 AM Respond
"Also, I love the poetic justice of Paul beating Rudy in the first states."
Me too.
I am not a Ron Paul supporter but it was poetic justice without a doubt.
Posted by: capt on 01/21/08 at 1:44 PM Respond
It makes perfect sense that he isn't doing well in New York, around these parts we all know first hand what a prick he is.
Posted by: Kyle on 01/21/08 at 3:39 PM Respond
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Posted by: Ensley on 01/21/08 at 11:14 AM Respond