OK this is where this all started. And since you are now complaining about it to me privately, I want to settle this in public once and for all. Without linking back to previous posts by Presidio, let me point out that, yes, Guliani will remain more popular than Schumer in 2006.
1) He will most likely deliver the keynote address at the RNC in MSG in 2004.
2) He is currently the second largest fund raising draw for the party behind GWB, and will play a huge role in the reelection campaign. Especially in NY.
3) He is a proven best selling author, with a contract for another book on the way. Want a bet that book appears some time between now and 2006?
4) He is a regular and frequent guest on the cable news shows
5) He remains the most recognizable Yankees fan
6) His consulting work in Mexico city will closely followed by the media
7) He is currently much more popular than Pataki
8) He is a much better politician than Pataki
9) Mike Bloomberg's contintued inferiority is making more and more NYers realize we had something special with Rudy.
10) Any issues of infidelity will be ancient history in 2006.
Pataki did win reelection. But he is less popular now. Now, without pointing to earlier articles, please make a similiar case on why Pataki will be more popular in NY than Guliani in 2006.