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12-27-2007, 01:01 PM
Giuliani's Disappearing Act
by Jason Horowitz (http://www.nyobserver.com/jason-horowitz) | December 27, 2007 | Tags:
Politics (http://www.nyobserver.com/politics)
Rudolph Giuliani (http://www.nyobserver.com/people/rudolph-giuliani)
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<!--paging_filter--> What was Rudy Giuliani thinking when he decided not to contest the primary all-out in New Hampshire?
That's a question a lot of political observers, and some of Giuliani's own New Hampshire supporters (http://www.nyobserver.com/2007/rudys-n-h-supporters-his-non-n-h-strategy), have been asking lately as the former mayor slides steadily off the national media's radar.
The Giuliani campaign has said that it is a media misperception that Giuliani hasn't been fully engaged in New Hampshire, even as he has spent a lot more time than the other candidates campaigning in February 5 states. (Yesterday, today and part of tomorrow, he's in Florida.) The Giuliani campaign also insists that the former mayor does not need early-voting-state victories because he is so popular in the delegate-rich states that come further down the road.
Now, Giuliani now has to watch the main primary contests essentially from the sidelines and hope that either Mike Huckabee can damage Mitt Romney in Iowa, or that John McCain can muddle the picture in New Hampshire. Even then, Giuliani will most likely have to compete in the February 5 states from the disadvantaged, inert position of a non-player in the early voting states.
MORE HERE (http://www.nyobserver.com/2007/giulianis-disappearing-act)
Maybe he's just "lazy" ... "he doesn't seem like he wants this job very much" and he's "so far behind in the polls" now that he's "dropping from possibility" and he knows it. His problem is that "he didn't get started" in Iowa early enough so he's "phoning it in now". Too old, too tired, too sickly .
Wait .... haven't I heard all that before somewhere? :question:
by Jason Horowitz (http://www.nyobserver.com/jason-horowitz) | December 27, 2007 | Tags:
Politics (http://www.nyobserver.com/politics)
Rudolph Giuliani (http://www.nyobserver.com/people/rudolph-giuliani)
<!--meta--> http://www.nyobserver.com/files/imagecache/article/files/122707_giuliani_web.jpgGetty Images
<!--paging_filter--> What was Rudy Giuliani thinking when he decided not to contest the primary all-out in New Hampshire?
That's a question a lot of political observers, and some of Giuliani's own New Hampshire supporters (http://www.nyobserver.com/2007/rudys-n-h-supporters-his-non-n-h-strategy), have been asking lately as the former mayor slides steadily off the national media's radar.
The Giuliani campaign has said that it is a media misperception that Giuliani hasn't been fully engaged in New Hampshire, even as he has spent a lot more time than the other candidates campaigning in February 5 states. (Yesterday, today and part of tomorrow, he's in Florida.) The Giuliani campaign also insists that the former mayor does not need early-voting-state victories because he is so popular in the delegate-rich states that come further down the road.
Now, Giuliani now has to watch the main primary contests essentially from the sidelines and hope that either Mike Huckabee can damage Mitt Romney in Iowa, or that John McCain can muddle the picture in New Hampshire. Even then, Giuliani will most likely have to compete in the February 5 states from the disadvantaged, inert position of a non-player in the early voting states.
MORE HERE (http://www.nyobserver.com/2007/giulianis-disappearing-act)
Maybe he's just "lazy" ... "he doesn't seem like he wants this job very much" and he's "so far behind in the polls" now that he's "dropping from possibility" and he knows it. His problem is that "he didn't get started" in Iowa early enough so he's "phoning it in now". Too old, too tired, too sickly .
Wait .... haven't I heard all that before somewhere? :question: