{"id":1533,"date":"2008-01-30T12:03:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T04:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2009-03-13T17:24:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T09:24:18","slug":"1533-of-goodbye-giuliani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1533","title":{"rendered":"[1528] Of goodbye Giuliani"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But there, too, the ground is shifting. Only weeks ago, Mr. DuHaime spoke in a call about the former mayor&#8217;s strong lead in those states. &#8220;Some of these leads are momentum-proof at this point,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Giuliani now trails or is at best tied in polls in all of those states. And soon after that phone call, reporters received a memorable e-mail rebuttal from Mr. Romney\u2019s spokesman, Kevin Madden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mayor Giuliani&#8217;s momentum-proof national polling lead, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny all walk into a bar,&#8221; it began. &#8220;You&#8217;re right. None of them exist.&#8221;[<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/30\/us\/politics\/30giuliani.html\" target=\"_blank\">For Giuliani, a Dizzying Free-Fall<\/a><\/em>. NYT. January 30 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But there, too, the ground is shifting. Only weeks ago, Mr. DuHaime spoke in a call about the former mayor&#8217;s strong lead in those states. &#8220;Some of these leads are momentum-proof at this point,&#8221; he said. Mr. Giuliani now trails or is at best tied in polls in all of those states. And soon after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[318,319],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","tag-giuliani","tag-us-presidential-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3008,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}