Political guru Charlie Cook
Has a nice piece on Rudy Giuliani. Like everyone else, Cook is perplexed how a
guy who married his cousin, got an anullment, then got married and divorced and
married again could be the Republican front runner (and then there is the matter
of his pro-choice, pro-gay, pro-gun-control views, all of which are extremely
well documented).
Cook's explanation lies in a number of polls that show very few voters know
anything at all about Giuliani's personal life and equally little about his
liberal social views. When pollsters told the people being polled about these
things, Giuliani's support dropped sharply. Cook does not believe that Giuliani
will get the nomination because he can't keep these things hidden forever.
A new New York Times/CBS
poll
shows that 6 out of 10 Republicans are not satisfied with the current crop of presidential candidates.
A lot can change in the coming year. Stay tuned.
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