The ole liberal's smear jobs might not effect Rudy's popularity in New York. He was the mayor in a liberal state you know.
Nobody here much cares one way or the other.
Look, as I've relayed before, during his divorce Rudy lived on the upper east side with two gay men. Not crashing on the couch of a couple of gay guys, but a massive large apartment with probably six or seven bedrooms. Anyway, it took awhile for people to find out where he was living, but one of the news stations caught him coming out of the building and played the Odd Couple theme song over the image.
Again, nobody in NYC much cared, but that kind of living arrangement doesn't sit too well with a lot of people.