John Edwards vs. Rudy Giuliani

[Colobo]

What do you think?

[rurallib]

1. Rudith is so fucking lame

I don't think even he can scare people into voting for him

[saltpoint]

2. Edwards by a comfortable %. Giuliani's polling takes a hit every time he

starts talking to another gathering of voters. If he was all the hot-shot hero he claims to be, Fred Thompson wouldn't have had a chance of even entering the nomination race, and now that Thompson's campaign looks like it's being run by whoever's in the local drunk tank, Giuliani's taken to pandering with the likes of Pat Robertson.

I'm not seeing Rudy's numbers get much better from this point forward and likely they'll keep slipping.

He' not really even competing in Iowa and he's steadily behind Romney in NH.

I think he's in a slow deflation and soon to be in the ditch.

[saltpoint]

3. There would also be the New England liberal Democratic voter who supported

Carter over Ford, for example, and who would likely be more drawn to Edwards than to Giuliani.

Edwards would carry New York, Rudy's home state, and would hold the blue states Kerry/Edwards won in 04, plus pick up several new ones: Ohio, New Mexico, Iowa, Colorado, and possibly Virginia and NC. If by chance Bill richardson were on the ticket, there'd be an even better chance of a blue win iin several other states with large and increasingly organized Hispanic voting populations.

Edwards wins Missouri over Giuliani as well.

A handsome popular vote victory and an electoral clincher long before midnight on Nov. 8th next year.

[Ninga]

4. The substance of your opinion makes a very clear and compelling argument in favor of Edwards.

I believe Edwards strategy has kept him in the hunt, and he is still well positioned to make a sprint for the finish line.


I expect that next week's debate, on Nov. 15th, will be another strong and consistent performance by Edwards.

[saltpoint]

5. Hi, Ninga.

Agree. He seems to be at the top of his debate game these days, and he likely will be pretty pumped up for this one.

He lagged a bit in Iowa in September and October but in past days the polling suggests that the race there is very close again. I think he is the beneficiary of a close race in Iowa.

And we're less than 2 months away from caucus night.

[Ninga]

6. Hello "Old Crusoe".....thank you. I am a recovering anti-Edwards detractors debater.

I have fallen off the wagon.....big time.

Edwards will prevail or he won't. If he does, it is a testimony to his leadership.

You remember "leadership" don't you? We used to have public servants that actually engaged their leadership for the good of the people.



:hi:

[saltpoint]

7. Your point on leadership in public servants is appreciated, and you are

right on the point as well.

There was a time not so long back that the population listened carefully to what the president had to say.

John Kennedy embodied this better than any president of my lifetime, short though his stay with us turned out to be. I miss him for a lot of reasons, but not least because he could the nation's attention with one sentence.

Good lord what a long way we've fallen with Dubya, who can barely CONSTRUCT a sentence, nevermind use it in the service of a point.

Still, we respect the office, no matter who is in it at the moment, with the expectation that someone better might come along who can restore the leadership component you're talking about.

I'd like that someone to be John Edwards.

[dajoki]

8. I take nothing for granted...

however I think Edwards wins in a close one. They have the machines, don't forget.

[saltpoint]

9. Hi, dajoki. Just wanted to say I like the Democrat in your avatar there

and I love the Democrat in your signature field quotation.

Two thumbs up for both those gentlemen.

[dajoki]

11. Thank You Old Crusoe...

They are two of my heroes. And don't ask me how, but I know the world would be a better place with RFK in it.:hi:

[Dulcinea]

10. Rudy Giuliani is a total sleazebag.

How did he get 3 women to marry him? Why would anyone vote for him? He's so repulsive! :puke: Every time I look at him, I just want to go take a shower.

[benny05]

12. K and R

Edwards will win that one easily.