Somehow, Giuliani is currently ahead of Clinton in MO, my home state...that’s a bit of a shocker at this point in time...
My take---and I can be way off---is that people (especially on the broadly-defined right)---prefer Fred, but are still waiting to see him actually DO something. His initial speeches have not been viewed as "energetic" or "inspiring." He says the right things, but not in a way that has people running out to hand out campaign literature. I think if Fred doesn't do something to really inspire people in the next month, Rudy's numbers will go back up again.
If it is Rudy vs. Hillary, you'll get the 5% of uber-conservatives who will never vote for a pro-abort candidate to sit home, but I think the other 95% of conservatives who vote on a wide variety of issues will (often grudgingly) support Rudy. So far, he is the only one to consistently attack Hillary and his anti-Moveon ad was terrific.
He missed a chance to weigh in on Rush---Fred nailed it---but it hasn't bumped Fred up the way Rudy's NY Times anti-Moveon ad did.
My take---and I can be way off---is that people (especially on the broadly-defined right)---prefer Fred, but are still waiting to see him actually DO something. His initial speeches have not been viewed as "energetic" or "inspiring." He says the right things, but not in a way that has people running out to hand out campaign literature. I think if Fred doesn't do something to really inspire people in the next month, Rudy's numbers will go back up again.
If it is Rudy vs. Hillary, you'll get the 5% of uber-conservatives who will never vote for a pro-abort candidate to sit home, but I think the other 95% of conservatives who vote on a wide variety of issues will (often grudgingly) support Rudy. So far, he is the only one to consistently attack Hillary and his anti-Moveon ad was terrific.
He missed a chance to weigh in on Rush---Fred nailed it---but it hasn't bumped Fred up the way Rudy's NY Times anti-Moveon ad did.