[Blackirish]

You can prop your little leftist candidate up all you want, but he will not fly, not now, not ever

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He's flying pretty high in the polls. Even in the south.
I keep hearing about this so-called split. Besides some hissy fitters on FR could someone provide some links or data to support this?

[OMalley]

When did FR EVER care about polls?

After all these years ive been lurking and reading and now all of a sudden the msm is right on and the polls are accurate.

Lets talk in about 6 months:-)

[JCEccles]

He's flying high in your fevered big-city delusional cloud.

[Unmarked Package]

"He's flying pretty high in the polls. Even in the south."

Temper that rosy outlook for Rudy at present with the surprising findings from a recent USA Today/Gallup poll showing only 1 in 5 Republicans are even aware of Giuliani's positions on social issues. If accurate, it certainly casts doubt that support for Rudy among Republican primary voters can hold at current levels as the primary approaches and his views on social issues become better known.

An excerpt from the article in USA TODAY with the poll results is provided below with my emphasis added:

As fondly remembered as Giuliani is for responding to Sept. 11, however, most Americans don't know much else about him. Barely one in five Republicans knew that he supports abortion rights and civil unions for same-sex couples, the USA TODAY poll found. Nearly as many thought he was "pro-life" as said he was "pro-choice."

When they were told about his stance on those issues, his star dimmed. One in five Republicans said his views would "rule him out as a candidate" they could support. That included one-third of those who attend church every week, an important base of the GOP that makes up a third of party loyalists.