Giuliani trailing on home ground (New York): poll

[LTR]

Source: Reuters

NEW YORK - Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is trailing in the race for the Republican presidential nomination even on his home turf of New York state, a new poll showed on Monday.

The WNBC/Marist poll ahead of the February 5 primaries in New York showed 34 percent of registered Republicans support John McCain, compared to 23 percent for Giuliani. Among Republicans likely to vote, McCain kept his 34 percent support, while Giuliani was tied in second place with Mitt Romney at 19 percent.

McCain's campaign has been boosted by wins in New Hampshire and South Carolina in the state-by-state race to pick the two candidates to contest the November 4 election to succeed President George W. Bush.

Giuliani, whose once large lead in national polls has evaporated, largely bypassed early voting states and focused on Florida, which votes on January 29.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_politics_newyork_dc

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He can't even win New York. Stick a fork in it, it's over.

[stray cat]

1. As a New Yorker (at present) I'm not surprised

When I asked a cab driver in NYC who they would vote for if they had to between Hillary and Giuliani. He said he would have to plug his nose but if he really had to choose he would vote for Hillary. (clearly he wasn't too happy with any candidates and struck me as an independent.

[Fridays Child]

2. Oh, c'mon. Everyone knows that all the best New Yorkers went down to Florida...

...to vote for Rudy there.

[Dems Will Win]

3. Good! I finished him off personally here on Du with that thread about Rudy paying for a plane seat

for Judy's Louis Vuitton handbag.

That was me found that in the Vanty Fair article.

[Honeycombe8]

7. Did he really? I've never heard of such a thing. How outrageous is THAT? nt

[Pastiche423]

8. Aw...

It doesn't look good for her becoming Jackie O the Sequel.





















YES!!!

[Danger Mouse]

4. Giuliani wrecked his own campaign.

Which is good, he's the worst of the lot, along with Huckster.
McCain and Romney, though both vile, are a hell of a lot better than Rudy and Huck.

[kenfrequed]

5. This is even worse for him than I called...

I had thought that New York would be one of the few advantages that Rudy had going for him. If he doesn't win huge in Florida, then he drops completely off the map.

Not that it really matters, I had called a Rude defeat over 6 months ago.

Oh and by the way, even Fox news and all of its idiotic blathering is not going to keep Romeny afloat. This is going to be between Huckabee and McCain, and the two of them are each going to grab another (eventually former) presidential candidate as VP.

[rpannier]

6. I was kind of hoping that he'd win either New York or Florida

I want a major split in the vote across the board:
the huckster, mitt "the sh*t", insane and ghouliani all take a few states each and continue beating on each other.