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Is it just me, or is the conventional wisdom beginning to move back in our direction? And is McCain-Romney just Republican for Dean-Gephardt? Flash back to a couple of weeks ago, when McCain and Romney exchanged hot words over the detainee issue. The…
The Rudy Giuliani national grassroots blogger organization is growing in preparation for a campaign as we welcome longtime reader and R4′08 blogger DaveG to Giuliani Blog. Dave is a whip-smart and incisive observer of the political scen…
Strategic Vision Pennsylvania (September 22-24, 2006): 19. Who is your choice for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2008? (Republicans only.) Rudy Giuliani 45% John McCain 22% Mitt Romney 7%Newt Gingrich 6% Bill Frist 2% George Allen 1%Rick Sa…
I didn’t cover this earlier in the week, but the timing of Rudy’s November 12th visit triggered the same bell with NYDN’s David Saltonstall as it did with me. I think Saltonstall goes a bit too far with his other implicati…
For all the bad, horrible, miserable, painful things that have happened to George Allen these last few weeks, you’ve gotta figure that ads like this have to hurt the most.
And Giuliani, who offered these encouraging words for the Virginia Senator:
“You can take somebody’s career and you can do all kinds of things with it, you […]
Think the dueling staff announcements from McCain and Romney are getting a bit ridiculous? (Even Hotline is getting a bit jaded.) Well, this press release just crossed our transom…Eighteen [Count ‘em, Eighteen!] New Hampshire Dog Catchers Join Straig…
Actually, it’s my hometown newspaper the Minneapolis Star Tribune. It will be interesting to watch them struggle to provide straight-up, non-biased coverage of the Republican Party for the next two-years leading up to the RNC:
If you believe the latest polls, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will have the best shot at raising his arms in […]
At the rate Senator McCain and Governor Romney are picking up alliances with key Republican insiders in early caucus and primary states such as Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Michigan, isn’t it becoming increasingly clear that Mayor Giuliani and Speaker Gingrich are likely to be running populist, outsider candidacies in 2008 that eschew the […]
Regarding playing the “blame game” over 9/11:
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani characterized Bill and Hillary Clinton’s recent criticism of President Bush’s efforts to stop Osama bin Laden before 9/11 as a “mistake” and said it’s time to “…
Let’s take a look a Rudy’s comments on Clinton and 9/11 in their full context:
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani characterized Bill and Hillary Clinton’s recent criticism of President Bush’s efforts to stop Osama bin Laden before 9/11 as a “mistake” and said it’s time to “stop this blame thing” over who is responsible […]
How will this play out with the grassroots Republican voters?
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani defended Bill Clinton on Wednesday over the former president’s counterterrorism efforts, saying recent criticism on preventing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is wrong.Political bickering over which president _ Clinton or George W. Bush _ missed more opportunities to prevent the […]
It’s official. Rudy Giuliani will accept the 2008 Republican nomination for President of the United States in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The convention will be held from September 1-4, 2008, replicating the brilliant timing of the 2004 convention and givin…
Rudy leads big in these two Southern States:
Strategic Vision Florida, Sept. 22-24, 2006
Who is your first choice for the Republican nomination in 2008? (Republicans only)
Rudy Giuliani 43%John McCain 25%Mitt Romney 7%Newt Gingrich 5%Bill Frist 2%G…
Not something I’d picked up on in my first pass at this. But take a look at this chart. Rudy’s got a 71-18 fav/unfav ratio among Iowa voters. McCain is at 59-24. But that’s not what catches my interest. Take a look at the “very favorable” column. Rud…
A new Iowa poll buried in the catacombs of the Des Moines Register presents Republicans with both news good and bad as we head into 2008, with electoral success dependent on — get this — which candidate each party nominates.Â
The poll tests general election matchups between four Republicans (Rudy, McCain, Romney, Frist) and four Democrats […]
Yepsen: (Giuliani beats Clinton 56-37; Edwards, 51-43; and Kerry, 53-40. McCain defeats Clinton 54-37; Edwards, 47-46; and Kerry, 53-39.) … That’s not exactly a heartwarming send-off for the hometown boy [Vilsack]. And that feeling comes through a…
Hillary’s presidential campaign seems to be in real danger of running out of steam, and that’s bad news for Democrats, as, if the primaries were held today, the number one candidate would appear to be the not-ready-for-prime-time (and horrible campaigner) John Edwards:
Today’s Iowa Poll of the 2008 race for president in the Hawkeye state ought […]
R4′08er Republius, as well as reader/R4′08 commenter LJ and Eye on ‘08 blogger Soren Dayton, two of McCain’s biggest boosters in the blogosphere, reply to my organization argument. Dayton writes:
Now, GiulianiBlog has responded quite strongly to this whole line of argumentation. He argues, in essence, that all you need is issues, bio, and personality and organization doesn’t […]
R4′08er Republius, as well as reader/R4′08 commenter LJ and Eye on ‘08 blogger Soren Dayton, two of McCain’s biggest boosters in the blogosphere, reply to my organization argument. Dayton writes: Now, GiulianiBlog has responded quite strong…
For all the arguments made at Giuliani Blog and Race42008 for why Rudy is the frontrunner, the one our critics keep coming back to is organization. My macro argument has been that the fundamentals –bio, attributes, likeability — matter far …
For all the arguments made at Giuliani Blog and Race42008 for why Rudy is the frontrunner, the one our critics keep coming back to is organization. My macro argument has been that the fundamentals –bio, attributes, likeability — matter far more than organization. Good organization provides that critical 2-3 points in a close race. The […]
Very nice web ad featuring Rudy Giuliani for Rick Santorum: He’s scary good. I was thinking the other day that, win or lose, Rick Santorum would be a great addition to Rudy’s campaign team. National Chairman even. (Via Santorum Blog.)
Today, the Washington Examiner’s Bill Sammon continues his “Meet the Next President” series with Rudy Giuliani. The piece begins strong, an example that the social right’s paradoxical support for Rudy is becoming ingrained into the conventional wisdom,…
Today, the Washington Examiner’s Bill Sammon continues his “Meet the Next President” series with Rudy Giuliani. The piece begins strong, an example that the social right’s paradoxical support for Rudy is becoming ingrained into the conventional wisdom, but goes downhill from there.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — at least on paper — […]
A few months ago, Rudy was holding on to single-digit leads in the Badger State. Now, it’s not even close. In Michigan, McCain continues to lead (the only state in Strategic Vision polling where he does) because of the goodwill from his dramatic 2000 …