[meg88]

Rudy would throw states into play that we haven’t dreamed of getting while keeping the base close.

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Home News Tribune Online 04/19/07
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) … New Jersey hasn’t supported a Republican for president for nearly 20 years, but a new poll released Thursday shows former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani leading all presidential challengers in New Jersey.

The Quinnipiac University poll found the Republican with similar leads over the three leading Democratic presidential candidates.

Giuliani leads New York Sen. Hillary Clinton 49 percent to 40 percent, the poll found. He leads Illinois Sen. Barack Obama 48 percent to 38 percent, and 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards 48 percent to 41 percent.

New Jersey hasn’t supported a Republican for president since 1988.

“”It makes no difference who the Democrats put up … Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or John Edwards … former Mayor Giuliani continues to knock out all challengers in the New Jersey presidential race,’’ said Clay F. Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070419/NEWS/70419003

[Alberta's Child]

On the flip side . . . Giuliani might be the only Republican in modern history who could actually put states like Texas, Idaho, Wyoming and Nebraska in play.

[The Shrew]

Rudy would throw states into play that we haven’t dreamed of getting while keeping the base close.

What about The Mayor makes you think he "will keep the base close?"

TS

[CharlesWayneCT]

while keeping the base close.

Rudy will not keep the base close. They base hates Rudy almost as much as Hillary, and his only hope is that our hatred of democrats is more.

Any liberal throws liberal states into play against Hillary, if you assume republicans will vote for him.

If Joe Leiberman ran as a republican, he'd trounce Hillary in the general election -- IF all the republicans still voted for him.

There is a reason we have primaries and don't let the general population pick our candidate -- because we'd end up with centrists that oppose what we believe in.

The Rudy supporters are trying to use opinion polls to replace our primaries in order to allow the democrats to pick our party nominee.