[Alberta's Child]

If my memory is accurate, Rudy Giuliani's popularity ratings were lower in 2000 and early 2001 than at any other time during his term in office.

If he were polling far ahead of Hillary Clinton in 2000, he never would have dropped out of the 2000 Senate race.

Yes, he had cancer. But he had a very common form of cancer and was undergoing a treatment regimen that has almost impact on the patient's day-to-day routines (witness John Kerry in the 2004 presidential campaign).

[veronica]

I know several people who have had prostate cancer. Their treatment included surgery, chemo, and radiation. All of these forms of treatment were debilitating and impacted their functioning capacity for a time.