Maybe not in less partisan times, but from what I am getting from people who vote, but don't dwell on politics. Rudy is a very popular guy. Granted the folks on here deride him, but it's easy to apply litmus tests from your keyboard without taking the mood of the electorate into account. People voted for change in 2006 not because of Conservative values, but because it's all partisan BS all the time and none of these Congress Critters seems to care about the average American.
We lost Allen and Santorum along with Chafee and DeWine. Think about it.