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“Yep, Guiliani was still ahead in October, but was always in the 19-22% range. He never got up to the 30s or a 3:1 “

Chuckle!
Yeah?
Quote:In the beginning, few cracks were evident in the Giuliani campaign machine. He led the Republican field in polls conducted by The New York Times and CBS News throughout the summer, as his support peaked in August at 38 percent nationally in a four-way fight with Mr. McCain, Mr. Romney and Fred D. Thompson

Giuliani actually peaked at 38%, and that was in August, just like Trump actually. Funny enough, Giuliani had huge crowds in deep red, conservative south too, just like Trump did in Alabama.

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Mr. Giuliani often played to large crowds in New Hampshire and through the Deep South; everyone seemed to love his tough talk on terrorism. When Mr. McCain’s campaign nearly flat-lined last summer, as he ran low on money, Mr. Giuliani seemed poised to take advantage.

mobile.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/us/politics/30giuliani.html?pagewanted=all&referrer=

Notice it didn't say 3:1. It said 38%. But for sake of argument we'll say it was 3:1. I was there. I remember the Guliani campaign. There was nowhere near this level of excitement. In fact, even though his poll numbers already started to fall, I can tell you the exact moment his campaign crashed. He was delivering a speech at C-PAC and it was full. You had to get overflow tickets to hear him.

He didn't address one single serious issue---he made references to terrorism. But his main line that he repeated at least three times was "As Americans, we want to sell you something, we want to buy something from you." And the crowd went "Huh???" And after he came back to this about two more times, people were looking around saying, "What is he talking about?"

But 30,000 people? Doubt it. You can see in the article how incredibly different Guliani is from Trump. He had (a paltry) $16m. Donald has $1.6 BILLION. He spent his money on direct mail. Trump spends no money at all. He gets entirely free publicity, but has finally opened and staffed (with a lot of people) IA and NH.

But whatever. Keep tellin yourself Cruz will be there a year from now in any capacity except as Trump's veep. See ya after some primaries.