Responding to the Rudy Rise
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I just got off the phone with a consultant to the McCain campaign — who was speaking on background — getting his take on the recent surge of Mayor Giuliani (and tanking of Senator McCain) in the polls.
“I look at it as, ‘Who would you rather be at this point?’,” the consultant said. Mr. Giuliani’s support is high, but it’s also “quite thin.” More important than the polls right now, he argues, is to look at Mr. McCain’s favorable-unfavorable ratings.
So, let’s look at those ratings in a couple of polls…
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