[muleskinner]

He sounds hawkish about terrorism, but that's probably also designed to play well in NY, which is heavily Jewish.

Yeah, the JOOZ like to hear all that anti-terror talk.

[hellbender]

Every Republican and a few Democrats likes to HEAR anti-terror talk. Talk is cheap. When it comes to actions, a mayor has no track record on national security. Period. On most other issues, his stance is pure liberalism.

And yes, a strong pro-Israel, pro-Iraq-war stance does play well with many Jews. Why do you think Joe Lieberman risked the wrath of his party to back those issues? He too is a standard leftist on everything else.

People who back Rudy because of his (largely hypothetical) "hawkishness on security" are the real single-issue voters.