Rudy Giuliani Watch: NOT ENDORSED – But Winning on the Ground in Florida?
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Rudy Giuliani’s latest campaign ad – “Not Endorsed”
Of course, Rudy would not be endorsed by the liberal press. But, John McCain, the liberal “Maverick” is.
Word from Florida “on the ground” is that Rudy’s turnouts at rallys have eclipsed McCain and Romney and the Cuban community is voting overwhelmingly for Rudy. Absentee and early voters have broken 2/3’rds for Giuliani making tracking polls hard to decipher.
- The Giuliani campaign is working hard and is confident of a win tomorrow despite the reports of Rudy’s demise by the MSM.
- Florida voters have been switching to Giuliani because of the nastiness and rancor between Romney and MCCain.
- The campaign is also gearing up for the run to Super Tuesday.
19 Comments
Tony Iovino
The great secret of Ronald Reagan that no one talks about is that he knew he was right and he, to a great extent, ignored the bleatings of the New York Times and the Washington Post. He ignored the polls. He knew what had to get done, and he did it.
Liberals hated him for his tactics, as they do Rudy.
But they loved his results, as they do with Rudy’s work in NYC.
We need Rudy.
I hope the good people of Florida agree tomorrow.
Dennis
This is an ad that I love. I hope your information from the ground in Florida is correct. I do know that Rudy has substantial support in the Cuban community since I and others in California have made several thousand calls into Miami-Dade County for Rudy.
Naruto
Go Rudy!
Prove the pundits and pollsters WRONG!
LETS ROLL!
Samantha
Our conference call this morning from FL was upbeat and we are going to win this in Florida. Floridians are going to show just how wrong the pundits and pollsters were to write off Rudy.
Seems robocalling pollsters don’t take into consideration the heavy early/absentee voting in FL so if you voted early and are asked who are you going to vote for on January 29th, there is nothing for you to press because you already voted.
Rudy turnout in the three south Florida counties is huge. Thank our Cuban American supporters who have spent countless hours out campaigning for Rudy. All you have to do is look at the list of Rudy supporters that come from the FL communities who are mayors and council members who the local people have voted in to realize support for Rudy is strong.
Paul8148
Someing polling does take account early voting and he is running thrid in the early vote.
Dennis
Paul8148,
How do you know how any cadidate is running in the early vote?
Samantha
Tomorrow is going to tell all in Florida.
The media pundits are right or they are way off.
The pollsters are right or way off.
People that cast early ballots and absentee ballots told the truth to trackers or lied.
We will find out tomorrow night!
Go Rudy!
MR
Paul is right, if you read the actual polls, they are accounting for early/absentee voting. And Rudy’s typically running 3rd in them. Contract to Flap’s assertion Rudy carried 2/3 of those. It’s a very sad day.
Dennis
MR,
If true, a very sad day, indeed.
Samantha
MR,
I agree with Dennis. It will be a sad day, indeed. We have to wait to see if the early voters/absentee voters that have been tracked by the Rudy people are correct when the people told them they voted for Rudy. If they are, the pollsters are wrong.
MR
Samantha, I don’t think you understand. If they correctly told the pollsters they voted early/absentee and voted for Rudy, then the pollsters are accounting for them.
Dennis
MR,
Since the state of Florida has not tabultated any votes, in essence you are talking about exit polling. We all know how accurate this type of polling has been in the past.
In short, I think we all need to just wait and see what happens tomorrow. I don’t trust any poll.
Muslims Against Sharia
Flashback: Giuliani to Arafat: “Take a hike!”
Source: http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/01/picture-is-worth-thousand-words.html
Samantha
Dennis —
I agree and how do you exit poll absentee votes?
Thanks for the calling into FL!
MR
Dennis/Samantha,
NO, not exit polling. Regular polling.
As part of their screening they ASK if you have already voted early. That is FACTORED INTO their results.
In fact, many of the pollsters have released the breakdown among early voters. And McCain leads in most of them, Romney in others. Rudy usually in 3rd. Among early voters specifically.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, as a big Rudy fan myself.
If you want to be hopeful about something, then be hopeful that the pollsters weren’t bilingual and aren’t seeing the full Cuban vote. However, Spanish-only speaking Cubans just aren’t going to be enough to make up the difference for Rudy.
Dennis
MR,
Your explanation begs the question: this process is stil exit polling. Furthermore, it is not consistent with the results found by Rudy’s campaign!!
Samantha
The reason polls have been so bad is people like me and others won’t answer the phone when we see the caller ID. Younger people for the most part don’t even get landlines. There are people that give wrong answers, etc. Robocalling is very unscientific but yet that is what some pollsters use. I would be just as happy to have a lot less pollsters, have honest ones, and have the pundits quit relying on polls and breathlessly reporting them.
For the person that said they take into account people that have early voted then explain why people in FL on robocall polling had no place to press a button saying they had early voted and for who they voted.
Remember back when they used to do polling and leave out the center of the Country because we were too conservative.
Anyone defending polls must work for a pollster because I don’t anyone around where I live, Republican or Democrat, that likes the polls or trust them. We have consultants including this one who advises candidates not pay for polling now because they have been so far off. Any candidate that pays attention to polling by these companies instead of working like they are behind is asking for a defeat.
One poll counts and that is what is happening today. Exit polls means nothing or Kerry would be President.
Whatever happens today, I am extremely proud to be a part of Team Rudy. Most of us are long time activists who went to Rudy because we believe he will be good for America and good for the Republican Party which has become too narrow thinking over the past seven years. Our Party has not reached out to enough diverse groups to the point we are going to start losing the younger voters if it does not change. Instead the leaders have decided to pander which has caused rifts within the Party and is causing us to lose elections. Until the Republican Party gets back to being fiscal conservatives who are strong on defense, we are going to continue to lose elections.
Dennis
Samantha,
I agree. What is surprising to me is the apparent coalescing around McCain. I have made virtually thousands of calls for Rudy since last summer, and most every republican I have spoken to, when asked, said they would not vote for McCain.
Maybe his recent support follows the typical GOP pattern: McCain gave it a good try in 2000, and since he is still around, the voters feel that it is his time.
What a pathetic mistake. It will cost the party dearly in 2008.
Samantha
Dennis —
It just came across on our newsbreak that in FL they are allowing Indys to vote in the GOP primary since the property tax issue is on the ballot. Every person was to be a registered Republican by 31 December but now local polling places are allowing Indys to vote Republican according to the newsbreak.
Have you ever seen a state with more voting problems then Florida? In one precinct they told a Dem they don’t have a ballot for the day and tried to give them a Republican one not realizing they had not opened the box with the property tax ballot for Dems.
Since Crist controls the State on elections, what gives? Not to say something smells but it really does.
I don’t get the GOP mentality that someone is owed the nomination — think it is dumb and hurt our party in 1996 and will hurt worse this time.
Allowing the early primary states to have Indys/Dems vote is just flat out wrong. No wonder McCain is doing well — indys love him. It is the Republicans that don’t! He has promised people a slot in his Administration to get them on board. Cannot believe Republicans are this stupid and makes me wonder why I work to help elect them. RNC needs a clean sweep like yesterday. It did after 2000 but it seems to have gotten worse not better.