New Iowa poll: Romney, Clinton lead, Rudy a poor fourth

Some interesting results from the first Rasmussen Reports poll out of Iowa today:
Mitt Romney still leads the Republican field by six points (25%) while Hillary Clinton leads her Democratic competitors (33%) by nearly twice as much, 11 points.
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Ex-NYC Mayor Koch: Giuliani Acted Improperly, Looks Like A Cover-Up

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani acted improperly and appeared to be covering something up when he charged the cost of his and his girlfriend’s security detail to obscure New York City agencies, former mayor Ed Koch told the Huffington Post.
On Wednesday, the Politico reported that in 2001, Giuliani transferred tens of thousands of dollars in [...]

Rudy Giuliani Misrepresents Important Health Care Facts

ABC News’ Rick Klein Reports: To hear Rudy Giuliani describe it in his new radio ad, the British medical system is a scary place. “My chance of surviving prostate cancer — and thank God I was cured of it — in the United States: 82 percent,” Giuliani says in a new radio spot airing in [...]

Rudy’s Pants On Fire

Secret testimony shows that Rudy’s not expert on terrorism
 
In a recent broadside deriding the Clinton administration’s response to Al Qaeda, Rudy Giuliani told an audience at Pat Robertson’s Regent University: “Bin Laden declared war on us. We didn’t hear it. I thought it was pretty clear at the time, but a lot of people didn’t [...]

Poll: Clinton increasing lead over Giuliani

Quinnipiac University Poll 
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is overwhelming Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and the rest of the Democratic primary field, and slowly increasing her lead over New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Republican front-runner, in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to Quinnipiac University’s Swing State Poll, three simultaneous surveys of voters in states [...]

Rudy worried about Democratic cash edge

The growing financial advantage the Democratic White House hopefuls are accumulating over the Republicans worries Rudy Giuliani, the presumptive GOP front-runner acknowledged Wednesday evening.
“Long-term, that is a concern of ours, meaning after February or March of next year we’re going to have to figure out how to match them,” Giuliani said in an interview with [...]

Giuliani Dogged by California Issue

Rudolph W. Giuliani’s campaign faced renewed questions on Monday over the role a top fundraiser played in a failed attempt to change the way electoral votes are apportioned in California. This time, a group opposed to changing the current rules called for a formal inquiry by the Federal Election Commission.
Mr. Giuliani himself has said his [...]

Giuliani says a little too much about Democrats and taxes

SUMMARY: Rudy Giuliani trotted out a common, and in this case not inaccurate, Republican refrain when he said Democrats want to raise taxes, but he mishandled the evidence.
At a July 30, 2007 campaign event in New Hampshire, Giuliani said this: “Democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster. It [...]

MoveOn’s growing power

There is no mistaking the influence of MoveOn.org, with its 3.2 million members and powerful fund-raising apparatus, within the Democratic Party.
Giuliani Attacks Clinton on War (September 15, 2007) This liberal activist group has come to occupy a prominent seat at the table among the party elite, so much so that Republicans leaped at a chance [...]

Polls:Rudy slipping

Ex-Mayor’s Numbers At a Low for the Year
By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers

Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani continues to lead the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but he has seen a dramatic erosion in his support, which now stands at its lowest point of the year, according to a [...]