[beltfed308]

specifically the 47% who identified thmselves as independents in the 2006 election.

And Rudy will be lucky to get 20% of the independents. Assuming they have no stake in the other issues in my previous posts. The primaries will narrow the field and there is a good chance Rudy will not make it.

[Sunsong]

Who knows. It is far too early, imo, for those kind of prognostications :-)

A year can be a lifetime in politics :-)