Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani trails current New York Attorney General and potential rival Andrew Cuomo by 12 points in a head-to-head match-up, according to a new poll conducted by the Siena Research Institute.
The most recent polling of potential races in the 2010 New York gubernatorial election show that Giuliani currently lags behind Cuomo, 53% to 41%.
The former mayor, who may have his sights set on New York State’s Executive Mansion, is one of only two Republican candidates (Former Governor George Pataki being the other) who have favorability ratings over 30%. Giuliani’s rating currently stands at 62% favorability, with Pataki running second with 55%.
Not surprising, Giuliani crushes unpopular incumbent Governor David Patterson in a head to head hypothetical, with his support standing at 56%, compared to Patterson’s 33%.
However, as a Republican, Giuliani faces an uphill battle in a state that was carried by Barack Obama in 2008, especially if Cuomo runs.
The 2008 presidential candidate has been maintaining a high profile since the end of his national campaign last year. According to a July article on FrumForum, Giuliani may still harbor presidential ambitions.
Mayor Giuliani has also continued to endorse candidates, putting his support behind Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman in the recent NY-23 race. He even went so far as to lend his voice to robocalls made on Hoffman’s behalf.
In the last week, he has condemned the Obama Administration’s decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Federal Court in Manhattan. Speaking to CNN, Giuliani labeled the move as an “unneccessary advantage” for terrorists that poses “risks for New York City.”
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1 teabag // Nov 18, 2009 at 8:36 am
Not so much, he is a liar and a partisan hack. As Biden quite rightly said of him all he is (a noun,verb and 9/11)
This is the same man who hailed the conviction — in a New York City courtroom — of the terrorists responsible for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. He said the guilty verdicts demonstrated that “our legal system is the most mature legal system in the history of the world,” “that it works well, that is the place to seek vindication if you feel your rights have been violated.
Even as late as the 2006 trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the 20th hijacker, in a Virginia courtroom, Giuliani said the proceedings showed that “…we are a free society, a lawful society … that we have respect for people’s rights and that we can have disagreements about whether the death penalty should be imposed on somebody like Moussaoui.”
His only reservation was the jury’s failure to sentence Moussaoui to death. But now, not even the Justice Department’s stated desire to put Khalid and his cohorts to death has been enough to satisfy America’s Former Mayor.
The city’s emergency command center went up in flames on 9/11 because Giuliani wanted the facility located within walking distance of his well-defended City Hall. That’s how the center wound up in terrorist target No. 1 — the World Trade Center. That was why Giuliani was famously trudging through the streets of lower Manhattan following the attack — he had no place to go. (At his side was the faithful Kerik, who reverted his previous role as the mayor’s bodyguard instead of running the police department during these fateful hours.)
Now, in his effort to fight Democrats as fiercely as he once wanted to be seen as fighting terrorists, he is warning that New Yorkers can’t handle the trial of a dangerous Islamic fanatic because it might be risky and inconvenient
Cynics might say he’s trying to turn us into him.
Dan Collins
2 DFL // Nov 18, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I have no love for Guiliani. But I wonder why he doesn’t run for the Gillibrand senate seat. Next year appears to be a Republican year even in New York and Gillibrand is an appointed senator. Guiliani should be able to defeat her.
3 Independent // Nov 18, 2009 at 2:06 pm
i really like america’s mayor. i’d like to be able to vote for him for governor or senator or even president. he’s exactly the kind of selfless, honest, candid, straight-talking, non-political public servant america needs in order to reverse our downward slide toward the leftists.
he served our country well on 9-11 by first reminding us to pray for the missing and dead, resist the impulse to target american muslims for revenge and keep a vigil light on.
mr biden, by contrast, was rumored to be cowering at a restaurant in DC when the jet hit the pentagon and, as soon as he heard what happened, he drove home to his mommie’s delaware estate and went into hiding.
coward. just like eric holder who said, on 9-12, “I doubt that this can be considered a conspiracy or an act of terror. The new york jet (sic) wasn’t connected with the pentagon plane. It’s impossible.”
4 ottovbvs // Nov 18, 2009 at 2:36 pm
…….against a serious opponent Rudy can’t win statewide in NY……that’s why he isn’t going to run for governor because the Dem candidate is going to be Cuomo…….and I very much doubt he could beat Gillibrand
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