If you cared to open your eyes you would see the same numbers from the South essentially. Polls from Georgia, South Carolina and Florida have been posted here with similiarly positive results for Guiliani. Most likely you already know this but prefer to act as if you don't.
Howard Dean led John Kerry 40-12 in New Hampshire as of December 3rd, 2003.
Polls now are meaningless. They are pure name recognition.
Sure, he's polling well now, but wait until people learn more about him. He's not likely to go up in numbers when people learn the facts! They already know his pro-WOT stance, and relative fisal conservativeness. Good points, yeah, but when they learn the baggage parts, they will run bigtime!
If he does get the R nod, you can be fully assured he will get hammered with it by the DNC machine.