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Rudy Giuliani has been running for President in a blur-literally. He needs his eyeglasses to see distance, but at most events he won't wear them. Instead, he rattles through his stump speech-tax cuts increase revenue, beware of Hillary Clinton, remember 9/11-while gazing into a fuzzy void. The spectacles come on only briefly, during question time, so he can make eye contact with his inquisitors...
...challenge for Obama and candidates like him is to establish a connection with traditional black constituencies while still maintaining a postracial profile. It's fitting that Obama often closes his stump speeches with an anecdote drawn from a campaign stop in South Carolina that reveals something about how he sees his identity...
...race goes on to Florida, and guess who's sitting there like a bug on a stump? Rudy Giuliani," said Mit Spears, a Washington Republican in Romney's camp. Florida's Jan. 29 primary will test the former New York City mayor's unconventional strategy of hanging back until the race reaches the megastates, where his celebrity gives him extra leverage...
...course, Obama will be more closely scrutinized now. He will have news organizations and rival operations assessing his voting records, personal investments and stump speeches for even a whisper of inconsistency or impropriety...
...continue to have access to plenty of money to contest his unusual campaign in all of the states over the next few weeks, including Nevada, South Carolina, New York and California. He has had to watch Clinton march on to his rhetorical ground, as she overhauls her on-the-stump-image and tries to make the theme of change her new best friend. And perhaps most importantly, she has been kicked to the ground by the voters in the first fortnight of the new year and gotten back on her feet - a huge psychological boost in politics that allows...