Note: I received a quick email from a friend in Rudy’s campaign. (These are her observations, and it wasn’t put out as “spin” to the masses, but a private email to me; but I asked her if I could post her comments, and she said, “Go for it.”):
Rudy’s state coordinators have been pulled into FL and for a town hall meeting that our coordinator is getting ready to attend in two hours; the room is already filled, and the line is going around the block…The crowds are growing and growing for Rudy as his bus is now going to early polling places….Signs for Rudy are everywhere along with their new bumperstrips…FL is Rudy Country…Rudy is making the local TV news, and they are ignoring what is happening in MI and SC…Was just on a conference call and this poll [Quinnipiac, showing McCain with a 2-point lead] was done before Rudy hit FL so heavily, and they did not poll many people in S. Florida where conservative Dems are registered as Republicans in order to vote for Rudy…Rudy’s campaign is being run by Jeb Bush’s campaign manager, and she has her people from before organized all over FL for Rudy who have been supplemented by political directors from around the country.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Hello, Greg-
Good report from the ground in the Sunshine State…
January 14th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Voted for Rudy in FL today as the polling stations have already opened.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Yay, Tom! I’m another Floridian for Rudy.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I love Rudy….
but it’s not looking good. I’ve been die hard since I saw him at CPAC in march….but im starting to wonder when I should take the sticker off my car. While this report looks good, it also looks too much like a fairy tale….
January 14th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
2 hard questions for Rudybots
- Why have his polls gone down when he has been the only one there?
- What will happen when the others arrive in FL in full force, battle tested with medals to show?
January 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I voted for Rudy in Florida today along with my parents…. He is going to win the state. He OWNS the state right now through Jan 20th. There isn’t anyone else here besides Rudy people. Rudy will win Florida! Everyone I talk to is voting for Rudy down here.
I’d say the next best organization is McCain, then Romney. Fred doesn’t have much here in NE Florida.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
How long was the lines down there today?
January 14th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
What part of Florida are you all from?
January 14th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Jacksonville- Not long at all
January 14th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Steve, I think that’s why they are trying to get everybody to vote before everybody else gets there. There is some validity to that if early voting is going on all this week. I have heard that their absentee program which ran from Jan3rd to now was run by former Bushies and was very good. Also, if they have some success in pitting Florida against the smaller early states, telling the voters is time to make FL relevant in the Pres picking process it could make a difference and work against the rest of the candidates when they do show up.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I’m not a proponent of early voting. Particularly voting this early – this is two weeks before the election. And not just because of the role that momentum plays. Something of great significance can and has taken place near the end of campaigns, and if voters are allowed to vote this soon, we could end up w/ results that we don’t want…
January 14th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I thought Jeb Bush was going to back Romney? What’s with this?
January 14th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
#11. Early voting is encoded into Florida law, and has been going on for years. It beats heck out of open primaries, imo.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
11
obviously its a result that YOU don’t want. I happen to think that momentum (esp created by two states such as IA and NH which are radically unique from the rest of the nation) is often a product of the race the media wants to see, and maybe not the race that the voters would like to see.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Steve #5: Why has Rudy gone down?
An incorrect NYT article for one, it was touted on page 1 for days and then withdrawn on page 35; the only person who took notice of the retraction was Chris Matthews. Even Chris Wallace didn’t seem to know and Rudy had to tell him on Fox a week ago at the Sunday debate. To quote Matthews: Where does he go to get his ten points the article cost him back?
Fox news has been ignoring him, reporting false stories about him daily/weekly and no one has called them on their stories. The media has decided McCain is their darling of the week — the MSM has always loved McCain, because he is more like them than most Republicans, with the possible exception of Huckabee.
Worst of all, too many people want to say they voted for the winner and thus vote for the person leading in the polls without ever doing research into the candidate. There is a good reason most of us Republicans in Arizona are disgusted with McCain, if he is elected, the rest of the country will soon figure it out.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Doubt McCain will win the nomination, he has too many enemies within the party. Rush for 1 was going off on McCain today.
The truth is that all of the primaries should be held the same day throughout the country.
January 14th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
16#
Rush goes off on McCain every day.
January 14th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
- Why have his polls gone down when he has been the only one there?
- What will happen when the others arrive in FL in full force, battle tested with medals to show?
1) Uh, because other people have been winning caucuses in the meantime!? Come on, now!
2) Nothing, because it won’t come as a surprise; Rudy already has prepared everyone to vote for him, knowing that he’ll have lost everything else.
January 14th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
The media is still doing all they can to bolster Rudy up. They just don’t have much to work with any longer. They want the most social liberal they can get, so they want Rudy first, and McCain second.
January 14th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
#19 – what media might that be?
January 14th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
The media is still doing all they can to bolster Rudy up. They just don’t have much to work with any longer. They want the most social liberal they can get, so they want Rudy first, and McCain second.
You’re an idiot.
January 14th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
All the news channels do their best to support him. It’s hard to do, but they do all they can within their power to keep him breathing and acting like the Florida strategy was his choice all along, and it sure as heck was not. He ran hard and failed in state after state and has fallen back to Florida as his last line of defense.
IF you guys can’t see that, YOU ARE IDIOTS, not me!!! Just because he’s falling on his face, don’t blame the media,. They’ve done all they can for him. He’s just a weak candidate. Everytime he starts running hard, he goes backward, then turns tail and runs.
January 15th, 2008 at 3:31 am
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