Giuliani vs. Clinton - Who wins New York?

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Guiliani can beat Hillary in the Senate race...

But I think Hillary wins for President.  Hard to say though.

I concur.

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Polls have shown Hillary beating Rudy both in a Senate Race & in a Presidential race

If there's one thing to be learned from the 2004 election it is to not believe polls.

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Clinton.  But only because she represents the WHOLE state.  Giuliani represented only NYC.  And it leans Dem anyway, so I would say Hillary by 3-5%.

I was under the impression that outside of NYC, the state was more conservative-leaning (hence, I suppose, why they have a Republican Governor) than the City? I also get the impression that NYC accounts for a pretty big chuck of the state's population. Therefore, if both of these impressions are semi-accurate, if there was a Republican who could win NYC, wouldn't they have a pretty good chance of winning the state?

As I said in another thread, if you take out NYC from NY it turns into a Democrat leaning swing state that a republican could actually win in unlike the city-dominated, always Democrat state it seems to be turned into.

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Yes, the religious right are definately just going to sit by and let that happen. And we all know Rudy has the perfect appeal for the Iowa and South Carolina GOP.

It's not even that. Rudy knows he's not going to go from being a former Mayor to President.

One thing about Rudy regardless if you like him or don't he is very aarrogant and it wouldn't suprise me if he tried to fo from Mayor tio President.  Him being very socially liberal would kill him in the primaries, but I would not be suprised if he ran

I'm gonna have to agree. Although I like the man as a politician he is a very arrogant person(I know someone in a high position who used to work with him) and that's why I think he just might make the jump if these useless polls keep showing him winning.