No, but it's worth noting that NYC, if it were it's own state, would be equal in population size to Georgia and bigger then Massachusetts or Arizona.
Bottom line: If you want to vote for someone who can beat Hillary, then you better go with Rudy. Otherwise, you are throwing your vote away to a 3rd party candidate and giving Shillary a clean path to the presidency. Newt is un-electable in a general election, as is Romney and Brownback. And McCain is....well McCain is McCain. Nuff' said.
Yes, but NYC is not it's own state, so it has zero electoral votes, and they would go Demonrat if it were a state. So Rudy has no track record except running in a place which is about as representative of America as is San Francisco.
He got the national spotlight right after 9/11. Otherwise no one would even consider him. He sounds hawkish about terrorism, but that's probably also designed to play well in NY, which is heavily Jewish. Why that makes him a deserving Pres. candidate for the party once led to triumph by Ronald Reagan beats me.