Ok, so NYC didn't see its crime rate drop during Rudy's 8 years....He had nothing to do with that. He was not a US Attorney who locked up members of the mob. Nahhh, he's not a crime fighter at all. Geez, this is getting ridiculous, people.
Yes, he deserves credit for cleaning up NYC, but crime in some rotten Eastern city, and the Mafia, are very minor issues to most Americans, esp. in the South and West, where he is going to have to win primaries. The SoCons are a far larger bloc than the "anti-Mafia" bloc, is such a thing really exists. Besides, we have at least as much organized crime as we ever did; only the names have changed. We now have Hispanic gangs, the Russian mob, etc., thanks to our wimpy immigration policy.