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Giuliani falls far behind
in Florida
Joseph Curl and Sean Lengell
Washington
Times
Monday January 28, 2008
Florida now appears to be a two-way race between
Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain, as two new polls show Rudolph
W. Giuliani losing support after skipping six straight presidential-nomination
contests.
Just 48 hours before the Florida primary, the former Massachusetts
governor and the senator from Arizona are deadlocked at 30 percent,
according a Reuters-CSPAN-Zogby poll released yesterday. Another
poll, by Rasmussen Reports, showed Mr. Romney up by six percentage
points over Mr. McCain.
But both polls show the former New York City mayor unable to
reignite his campaign. The Zogby poll showed Mr. Giuliani slumping
to fourth place — one point behind former Arkansas Gov.
Mike Huckabee — at 13 percent, down two points from its
last poll. The Rasmussen poll put Mr. Giuliani at 14 percent.
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"Giuliani is becoming less of a factor in Florida,"
pollster John Zogby said. "This is a two-man race: It's all
coming down to McCain versus Romney."
Mr. Giuliani's campaign embarked on a risky strategy of not focusing
on the big three early contests — Iowa, New Hampshire and
South Carolina — and three other smaller contests, to target
Florida, where his campaign strategists viewed the electorate
as a better fit. The strategy appeared to pay off — three
different candidates won among the first six contests and none
has been able to break out of the pack.
But the former mayor did not foresee plummeting in the national
polls, which he led for months, and all but disappearing from
media reports about the Republican race.
"It's clear that his support is sinking, and he's being
crowded out by two men who have already won primaries," Mr.
Zogby said. "The best you can say about his strategy is that
it was risky, and the worst you can say is that it was foolish."
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