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The most surprising recent national polling result was an answer given by Republicans who attend church weekly when Gallup asked their presidential preference. A plurality chose Rudy Giuliani, a Catholic who in 1999 said: "I don't attend regularly, but I attend occasionally." Their choice raises deep concern among prominent conservative Republicans who feel it would be a serious mistake for leaders of the religious right to scorn the former mayor of New York. This is threatening to become a major problem because, contrary to the conventional wisdom, Giuliani has stubbornly kept first place in national surveys of all Republican voters....

David Letterman: "Now here is what I don't understand. Rudy Giuliani had three wives and he's not the Mormon candidate. Is that right?"

Giuliani often prays to Jesus...."I'm guided by the story of the woman about to be stoned, when Jesus said, 'He that hasn't sinned cast the first stone'"...... But Giuliani's biblical analogy drew guffaws from people who closely observed his tenure as mayor, when he often demonized others. " Mayor Giuliani wasn't just a stone-thrower. He was a boulder-thrower," said Baruch professor Doug Muzzio. "Rudy has had too many epiphanies.....strategic conversions on the road to the White House. We are not gullible."

WASHINGTON (AP) — People view Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani as the least religious of the major presidential candidates, according to a poll released Thursday. Mitt Romney was seen as most religious, but his Mormonism may hurt him with voters. Seven in 10 in the nonpartisan Pew Research Center poll said they believe it is important for a president to have strong religious beliefs, including broad majorities of both parties. Most also see each major presidential hopeful as at least somewhat religious — important because people who view a candidate that way are likelier to have a favorable opinion...