Liberty Maven

From the Miami Herald we get an article on Rudy Giuliani’s chances in Florida. Ah yes… Florida. The state where Giuliani has been campaigning alone while all the other candidates properly campaigned in the early caucus and primary states. According to the poll referenced in the article Giuliani is in 3rd place in Florida. According to a quote in the article he has “no chance to win Florida”.

From the Giuliani campaign we are also starting to get the “damage control” rhetoric that he doesn’t have to win Florida to stay in the race. We’ll see.

Rudy Giuliani has hit the skids in a Florida freefall that could shatter his presidential campaign and leave a two-man Republican contest in the state between John McCain and Mitt Romney, a Miami Herald poll shows.

Despite hovering over Florida voters for weeks, Giuliani is tied for third place with the scarcely visible Mike Huckabee in a statewide poll of 800 likely voters.

With his poll numbers slipping back home in the Northeast, Giuliani’s campaign will implode if he can’t turn it around in the six days left before Florida’s Jan. 29 vote, the final gateway before a blitz of primaries around the nation that could sew up the race.

”He may be running for president, but with these numbers he wouldn’t be elected governor of Florida,” said Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway, whose firm conducted the survey with Democratic pollsters Schroth, Eldon & Associates for The Herald, The St. Petersburg Times and Bay News 9. Alluding to the timeworn song, Conway added: “If he can’t make it there in Florida, he can’t make it anywhere.”

Read the rest at the Miami Herald.