{"id":116,"date":"2006-11-24T05:56:19","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T11:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/24\/rudy-2\/"},"modified":"2006-11-24T05:09:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T11:09:56","slug":"rudy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Can&#8217;t Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deroy Murdock on <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=YzE2MTQ5ZWM0ODI5NGJjOGNlOTc4MDkyYzk4MWZmZDg=\">Giuliani&#8217;s shot at winning the GOP base<\/a>  in time for the &#8217;98 race:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Surveys consistently demonstrate that Giuliani, not Arizona Senator John McCain, is this race\u2019s frontrunner. It\u2019s not even close&#8230;Among likely Republican voters polled in Michigan, McCain beat Giuliani 33 percent to 25. Rudy romped elsewhere in Strategic Vision\u2019s November 6 survey. Giuliani outran McCain by nine points in Georgia (33 percent to 24); 19 in Florida (46 percent to 27) and Washington State (42 percent to 23); 22 in New Jersey (47 percent to 25); and 23 points in Pennsylvania (47 percent to 24). Governor Mitt Romney (R.,  Mass.) scored, at best, a distant third in these states&#8230;Some argue that Giuliani\u2019s prominence in this and other polls merely reflects his high name ID. But this notion shatters beside McCain and both Clintons \u2014 three household names.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most conservatives have their troubles with Giuliani.  I do.<\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;re solveable problems &#8211; to me, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Question for conservatives; given that Rudy seems to have immense legs <em>and <\/em>that he&#8217;s right on so many conservative issues (while being dead-wrong on a few), what <em>would <\/em>it take for Rudy to make nice enough for you to vote for him in a primary?<\/p>\n<p>And if he was the one that got out of the convention with the nomination, would you vote for him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deroy Murdock on Giuliani&#8217;s shot at winning the GOP base in time for the &#8217;98 race: Surveys consistently demonstrate that Giuliani, not Arizona Senator John McCain, is this race\u2019s frontrunner. It\u2019s not even close&#8230;Among likely Republican voters polled in Michigan, McCain beat Giuliani 33 percent to 25. Rudy romped elsewhere in Strategic Vision\u2019s November 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}