It should be no surprise to presidential candidates that once you reach a certain level of popularity in polls, the news media turns their attention on them. Typically, the top three candidates from both parties, sometimes four, share the available resources of the national media and the top candidates can only hope one of the lower candidates does something to attract attention.
However, in this primary year, Rudy Giuliani has provided plenty of fodder for the media covering the Republican primary. First, he shot into the top spot in most polls sparking the media to begin digging deeper into many facets of his life, pubic and private and the former New York mayor has rewarded their efforts. His current rankings, according to polls at usaelectionpolls.com, show his popularity in Iowa has descended to a mere five percent, leading only last place long-shot Ron Paul.
In New Hampshire and South Carolina, two other early primary states, he is holding on to second place behind Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, respectively but holds a solid 25 percent of those polled in Nevada. His personal life has been dredged by the media, letting the world know he was having an affair prior to divorcing his first wife and that there may have been some charges made to his security detail that were actually for his liaisons with his then-girlfriend.
His angering of the New York City Fire Department over statements he says were misunderstand about being with them at the collapsed World Trade Centers may have hit many people harder than his dalliances in his personal life.
Rudy Giuliani is at 48% in New York, 32% in California, 31% in Florida, 29% in Ohio, and 27% in Pennsylvania.
