One of the women at tea used to live in Montclair, NJ and she said that lots of democrats she knows personally adore Rudy and will be voting for him.
Montclair is a bedroom community to Manhattan so she knows the demographics in that area (largely Democrat) quite well.
Peach - did you happen to see Rudy's talk at The Willard Hotel , to the Hoover Institution?
It was on CSpan?
http://www.c-span.org/VideoArchives.asp?CatCodePairs=,&ArchiveDays=100&Page=2
At the bottom of the page.