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...divisive and polarizing figure). Others have said that former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), a white male protestant, is the Dems “sure thing” heading into ’08. On the other side, many claim that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani would suddenly put states like New York and New Jersey into play for the Republicans, thus putting the Democrats on the defensive and retaining the White House for GOP control...
...truth, there is no way to know which candidate might be elected until we know who they’ll be running against. If political ideology were the measure, it would not make sense for polls to show Edwards and Giuliani, viewed now as the left and center candidates respectively of their parties, in a dead heat. If electability was determined by race or experience, then the half-black and “inexperienced” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) wouldn’t have consistently been ahead of the veteran senator (and actual veteran) Sen. John McCain...
...Among Republicans, opinions diverge as well. John McCain would support a cap-and-trade system to control emissions, and opposes drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Giuliani and Thompson oppose a cap-and-trade program and support drilling in ANWR. McCain and Giuliani support embryonic stem-cell research while Romney and Thompson do not. While Romney said America “ought to double Guantanamo,” McCain would close it immediately...
...most of the last six months, the Giuliani high command has spent considerable time trying to decide how to deploy its most precious assets - its money, its best organizers and the candidate himself - in the early primary states. It has been a complex - and shifting - calculation for a Republican who got in relatively late, comes from a blue city in a blue state, tilts to the center on abortion and homosexuality and has a name that ends with a vowel. And so, Team Giuliani has already passed through several stages on the path to nirvana...
...part the family spokesman, Glasenapp, 28, said he tends to vote conservative but, because of frustration with the conservatives in power right now, was considering four candidates: Romney, Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. "I haven't been too impressed with Republicans lately, so I'm looking at everybody," he said. "I would be interested to know what each of them has to say, or would be trying to do, to keep this from happening again. You shouldn't be sitting in your living room wondering whether someone with a history of violent acts is going to break through your...