In the end, Giuliani's differences with the GOP's social conservatives will probably win him their respect. What kind of commander-in-chief would he be, after all, if they can bully him into embracing fake pieties?
Voters are tired of chameleons. You can see it in the lackluster momentum that Hillary and Romney are maintaining, and with the unusual star power that Obama and Guiliani are building.
I think that a similar event took place in the battle between Kerry/Bush. People might not like President Bush, but he has two distinct advantages over Kerry. He's for the war, and he's a solid person. Kerry is an etherial nuance, a human metaphor for a transparent sham. He doesn't say what he means or means what he says. You don't have to like President Bush, but he is what he is.
I think Rudy and Obama are popular for exactly that reason. Rudy may be a tough guy with a lot of leftist positions, and Obama may be an unreconstructed Marxist with a nice smile, but God bless em, they aren't ashamed to be what they are. All of the insincere chaff is going to get swept away, I suspect. The voters aren't in the mood for men who can be pushed around.
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Obama screwed himself up on being himself. He was speaking at a mainly black audience and started talking in half english to make himself fit in better. Rush played the clip.