One was claiming the audience at this event was "college students" because they gave Rudy such an enthusiastic response. To hear them tell it Giuliani is totally talentless barely able to tie his shoes. He never did anything good, positive, has never helped the party.
The delusions are remarkable.
The audience IS 80% college students. The front has all the older people and they seemed to be much more pro-Rudy than the students where I was sitting. There was also a somewhat sizeable faction of student Rudy supporters (maybe 50 or so) that all came in together with homemade Rudy signs. I know they were organizing this on Facebook last week. They were all up in the front on both sides. Basically what I am trying to say is that a lot of the vocal Rudy fans were up in the front of the room which may have left the impression that he was getting more support/louder applause than he was. For comparisons sake, Wayne LaPierre, who spoke before Rudy, got bigger, longer, and louder ovations from the room as a whole. It was just a different kind of applause for Rudy. He got the star treatment but not the candidate treatment that I saw in particular for Tancredo, Brownback, and Romney.