Oh-eight (R): Huck's crowds in NH
Posted: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:06 AM by Mark Murray
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GIULIANI: The extensive
New Yorker profile of Giuliani wonders whether the things that made New York City residents both love and hate Giuliani make him appealing to conservatives in the South. "It is also possible that the rest of the country knows all it wishes to know about Giuliani. It was Giuliani who was depicted in the Times as imposing ‘the mores of Mayberry’ on the city. Stephen DiBrienza, the former City Councilman, says, ‘All the things that a lot of New Yorkers, myself included, hate about this guy are the things that are actually fuelling his campaign.’”
No wonder most strategists don't believe Giuliani could ever put New York in play (because he's still disliked to a degree in NYC), but he could put New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or even Connecticut in play. Overall, this is as thorough of a profile as we've seen of Giuliani this campaign season. Do take special note of the problems the author points out Giuliani could have regarding his gun stance.
Page Six reports that Giuliani will receive the British “Medal of Freedom” on September 19 from former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
HUCKABEE: Boston Globe's New Hampshire political reporter,
James Pindell, reports on Huckabee's four-day swing to the Granite State, noting: "If crowd sizes are any indication, many took the opportunity over the weekend to give Huckabee a second look. Nearly 100 to 150 people came out to see him at several stops, about twice to three times his usual draw." So overall, it appears the straw poll surprise for the Arkansas governor worked enough for him to give him his best reception yet in New Hampshire.
The Politico's Martin also followed Huckabee around New Hampshire and finds the candidate has found a target in his speeches: Mitt Romney.
MCCAIN: Does McCain have a legitimate shot in New Hampshire, even now? Jennifer Donahue, of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, seems to think so -- and lays out the case in the
Boston Globe. She says he understands that campaigning in New Hampshire in August is important and “that New Hampshire gives supposedly faltering front-runners a chance to come back.” She also cites his improved numbers with independents and that his support for the war shouldn’t hurt him in the Granite State since all the other Republican candidates support it as well.
TANCREDO: What took Tancredo so long to jump into the Newark shooting controversy involving an illegal immigrant?
THOMPSON: The campaign-in-waiting is starting to put Thompson’s September schedule together. He's been added to the list of presidential speakers at a Michigan GOP event on
Sept. 22.
Scripps Howard News Service is the latest media organization to take a look at Thompson’s Senate papers, filed at the University of Tennessee archive. “Although Thompson generally voted the pro-life position on abortion legislation during his tenure, his responses to questionnaires on the issue during his 1996 re-election campaign may raise concerns among anti-abortion activists.”
