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Clinton has received the most media coverage of any candidate (17 percent of stories), followed by fellow democrat Barack Obama (14 percent of stories). Rudy Giuliani, the republican candidate who has received the most coverage, was covered in nine percent of the stories...
...expect that he will win the nomination, and he has no interest in running as an independent again. But he also doesn't see himself endorsing one of the other Republicans in the general election. "Those people who support me wouldn't believe it," he says. "If I said, 'Giuliani's a great guy, and he'll reduce subsidies and bring the troops home'? I couldn't do that." Even nerd revolutions don't surrender...
...While Democrats tussled on Tuesday night about whether Sen. Hillary Clinton was forthcoming about the fate of 20 million documents in Little Rock's Clinton Library, Giuliani could face his own questions about the handling of archival material. On Sunday, The Chicago Tribune reported that associates of the former mayor arranged to have 2,100 boxes of documents from his tenure at City Hall copied and archived before they were returned to the city. The unusual chain of custody - since outlawed by New York City - raises questions about whether documents were deleted or sanitized...
...then there are questions of his follow-through on issues he's supposedly passionate about. Giuliani is likely to face questions as to why he agreed to serve on the bipartisan Iraq Study Group in 2005 but then quit the panel after just a few months...
...almost axiomatic in some circles - mostly notably the Romney campaign - that Giuliani cannot survive all the scrutiny that will come with being perceived, rightly or wrongly, as the G.O.P. front-runner. But that remains to be seen, and given a choice, most candidates would certainly prefer scrutiny to obscurity. Most of the other Republicans, after all, went unmentioned in Philadelphia, save for Sen. Barack Obama's sly (but no doubt rehearsed) aside at the end of the night that he might don a Mitt Romney mask for Halloween. "It has," he said, "two sides...