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Normally, by mid-August the presidential field would be set. But the 2012 cycle is anything but normal: Rick Perry entered the race this weekend, and he may not be the last. Paul Ryan is reportedly pondering a run. Sarah Palin’s bus tour is up and running again. Rudy Giuliani has said he’ll make a decision by September. And Karl Rove is suggesting Chris Christie could still be a welcome addition. Polling, too, suggests that several of those possible candidates could have an impact on the race. In the Daily Caller/ConservativeHome tracking poll, Chris Christie has sat at or near the...

Rick Perry on Rudy Giuliani: "He's the closest thing we have to a Ronald Reagan Republican in this race". Slick-Rick apparently thought PRO-ABORTION, PRO-GAY, ANTI-GUN Rudy Giuliani was closer to President Ronald Reagan than was Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo and/or Fred Thompson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRAm_P98OoQ

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani continues to mull the possibility of a 2012 presidential bid, but his true power in the race may come if he decides against running and instead throws his support to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The two men are good friends, and Perry was the only Republican governor in the country to endorse Giuliani’s presidential campaign in 2008.

The two men are good friends, and Perry was the only Republican governor in the country to endorse Giuliani’s presidential campaign in 2008. Payback could benefit Perry on a number of fronts – most notably fundraising – and would likely strengthen his status as a top-tier candidate if he decides to run.First and most importantly, Giuliani has deep connections in the New York City Republican money world. (snip) Perry has never had to raise money under federal contribution limits — $2,500 for the primary and $2,500 for the general election is all any single donor can give — and would...

August 2, 2011 Poll Watch: Gallup 2012 Republican Favorability Survey Ratings of 2012 Contenders Steady in July: Giuliani, Palin & Romney enjoy broadest popularity Favorability Ratings * Rudy Giuliani 70% * Sarah Palin 65% * Mitt Romney 62% * Ron Paul 50% * Michele Bachmann 49% * Newt Gingrich 48% * Rick Perry 40% * Tim Pawlenty 36% * Herman Cain 35% * Rick Santorum 31% * Jon Huntsman 22% Positive Intensity Score (Strongly Favorable minus Strongly Unfavorable) * Herman Cain +25% * Rick Perry +24% * Rudy Giuliani +19% * Sarah Palin +16% * Mitt Romney +15% * Michele...

Big, bad Bernard Kerik wants to bunk with the regular Joes -- even if they're accused killers, rapists and muggers. The disgraced former city police commissioner yesterday refused to ask to be separated from the general population as he spent his first full day in the Westchester County jail. He's been accused of trying to taint the jury pool in his upcoming federal corruption case. So jail officials made the decision for him -- and hauled him anyway into a segregated wing reserved for cops, judges and other at-risk inmates. Kerik once was also head of the city's jails, and...

NEW YORK — The ceremony at the World Trade Center site marking the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks will be a solemn but stately event ... President Barack Obama and Bloomberg will be joined by the leaders in charge during the 2001 attacks, including former President George W. Bush, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former New York Gov. George Pataki. Current New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will also be there, he said.

Of all the potential late entrants into the Republican nomination contest, the one who gives Mitt Romney the toughest fight is Rick Perry, according to the latest Gallup poll. If Perry, Sarah Palin, and Rudy Giuliani all get into the race, Perry comes in just two points behind Romney and ahead of Palin and Giuliani, while Michele Bachmann falls to fifth place — well within the margin of error: Mitt Romney is the leader for the GOP nomination among the current field of official candidates, supported by 27% of Republicans, compared with 18% for Michele Bachmann. However, Rick Perry would...

Mitt Romney remains the frontrunner in two new polls, but Rick Perry is a close second in both polls. Results from the Fox News poll of GOP primary voters: Romney (17 percent), Perry (14 percent), Michele Bachmann (10 percent), Rudy Giuliani (9 percent), Sarah Palin (9 percent), Ron Paul (9 percent), Herman Cain (5 percent), Newt Gingrich (4 percent), Tim Pawlenty (2 percent), and Rick Santorum (2 percent). Romney has lost six percentage points since an early June Fox poll, while Bachmann has gained six points. Perry did not appear on the early June poll. If options are limited to...

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is still weighing a presidential bid, said Sunday that the Republican Party should stop focusing on gay marriage and "get the heck out of people's bedrooms." Giuliani, who personally supports civil unions but not same-sex marriage, said that he was against the recent vote in New York to legalize gay marriage in the state. But while he called that decision "wrong," he described it as a "democratic vote" and urged Republicans to move on. "I think that marriage should be between a man and a woman, but I think that the Republican Party...

Howard Koeppel, the gay used car dealer who Rudy Giuliani lived with for six months when his marriage was crumbling is distressed that Rudy hasn't returned his calls. He's waiting to hear a good reason why Giuliani won't perform a same sex ceremony. "He wouldn't be married three times if he was holier than thou," Koeppel concluded. Giuliani opposed gay marriage but endorsed civil unions and domestic partnerships, while displaying a propensity for shocking conservatives by dressing as a woman. "I'm glad that people who felt discriminated against have that burden lifted," Giuliani said when the same sex marriage bill...

<p>NY Dem Gov. Cuomo won a ringing endorsement from an unlikely corner, Republican Rudy Giuliani......for passage of the hotly contested gay-marriage bill....</p>

In the 1850s, on the steps of the Waco courthouse, Wallace Jefferson’s great-great-great-grandfather was sold. Today, Jefferson is chief justice of Texas’s Supreme Court. The governor who nominated him also nominated the state’s first Latina justice. Rick Perry, 61, the longest-serving governor in Texas history and, in his 11th year, currently the nation’s senior governor, says these nominations are two of his proudest accomplishments. French cuffs and cowboy boots are, like sauerkraut ice cream, an eclectic combination, but Perry, who wears both, is a potentially potent candidate for the Republican presidential nomination because his political creed is uneclectic, matching that...

Rudy Giuliani said Thursday he made a mistake in 2008 by not dedicating more time to campaigning one-on-one with New Hampshire voters. But he suggested he may ask them to give him a second look. The former New York City mayor, starting a swing through the first presidential primary state, said he would make up his mind about making another White House run by late summer. "We didn't do it the right way" in the last presidential election, Mr. Giuliani told reporters before a speech at an Italian restaurant here. "We were spending so much time trying to raise money...

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) said he met in recent weeks with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) as Giuliani mulls a second run for president. Giuliani said on conservative talker Sean Hannity's radio show that he'd met recently with McCain, the 2008 GOP nominee, and come away with the conclusion that it'd be better to focus on primary states if he were to run again.Giuliani's campaign is widely seen to have stumbled because of his focus on the Republican primary in Florida, at the expense of earlier, traditional contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. By the...

Here we go again, Rudy Giuliani edition. A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll shows the former New York City mayor atop the slow-forming Republican primary field. The survey shows Giuliani getting 16 percent of independents and Republicans, with nominal frontrunner Mitt Romney a point behind at 15 percent. Sarah Palin gets 13 percent.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is heading to New Hampshire next week, stirring further speculation that he may jump into the 2012 Republican presidential field. Giuliani will spend Thursday in the state, which is scheduled to host the first presidential primary next February.

Rudy Giuliani has shaken up the field of potential presidential challengers by coming out on top in a poll of Republican frontrunners. The former New York Mayor’s election bombshell came even though he hasn’t even announced he is joining the 2012 race. Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin came in second and third place in the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey published today. Many Republican voters admitted said they were not very satisfied with the current crop of declared candidates who will battle for the right to take on President Obama. Giuliani, with 16 percent support, was the shock frontrunner despite suggesting...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has ignited a fresh brushfire of chatter over a possible candidacy on Thursday when she announced a nationwide, campaign-style bus tour to begin Sunday. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who some think could make a stronger run than any of the current candidates, said he's going to "think about" a bid. CNN Poll: Giuliani 16% Romney 15% Palin 13%

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