Guiliani could also do well in Maine and New Hampshire in a general election.
It used to be that the GOP could always count on winning NH - but lately that hasn’t been the case.
That’s only 8 electoral votes - but in a tight race, I’ll gladly take ‘em.
And Maine, which used to be a Bellweather, but if we assume that we have a election map similar to 2004, ME and NH don’t equal to say Arkansas, New Mexico and Arizona.
And that is the trade off that would lose the election for Republicans in 2008, winning NJ may offset Ohio, but not those other states.