Hasn't he been building since 2001, and don't they say that , for Republicans, the leader a year out gets the nomination? They leave out their real concern, and that is that both Giulani and McCain beat all Dems and that margin is up to plus 8%. That's no margin of error thing. That's landslide proportions.
Yes. There have been newspaper articles (I didn't save them and so can't give a link) that say typically the Republican's front runner is the nominee.
Polls are meaningless this far out from the primaries. If you think the next election is going to be a "landslide," you are speculating in the extreme. It is more likely to go down to the wire and be a clone of the 2004 election.