When Rudy Giuliani, former New York Mayor took to the campaign trail, he almost instantly shot to the top of the Republican list of presidential contenders. He has survived attacks about his personal life and misstatements he made concerning his appearance at the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks. Some in the media had called him the Teflon candidate as troubles seemed unable to worsen his chances.
However, as the news media focuses its attention on the top candidates, expending many of its resources on the top candidates in both parties, they develop a whatever it takes attitude towards all of them. Recent questions involving charges to the security forces of Giuliani while he was mayor seem to indicate some of the expenses, charged to the city, were for things other than official business.
However, recent polls published at http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/ do not indicate the recent, or past revelations have much of an effect on his standings. With 40 percent of probable voters remaining supportive of Giuliani, the other candidates are still jockeying for second place. Iowa is the only early primary state that has shifted against Giuliani with only five percent still behind him. In New Hampshire and South Carolina he remains in first place with 17 percent ratings.
In national polls shown at PresidentElectionPolls.com, he is basically tied with John McCain of Arizona when asked which candidate they would support against a Democrat contender. However, if the four regions polled were averaged nationally, Giuliani's lead is a very slim 43.9 against McCain's 43.8 percent.
