Rudy Giuliani’s Decision

December 26, 2009 by Robert Nedelkoff | Filed Under American Politics, Politics, Republican Party 

This week, former New York City mayor and unsuccessful 2008 presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani made it official: he has no plans to run for either New York governor or the U.S. Senate, but for now will concentrate on developing his security firm and maintaining his law practice. An article by Ron Scherer of the Christian Science Monitor quotes one leading pollster who thinks that this effectively eliminates Rudy as a contender in the 2012 race and perhaps beyond:

Of course, in politics, anything is possible. Politicians considered “yesterday’s news” have managed to get elected.

“Richard Nixon rewrote the book about comebacks,” says John Zogby, head of the polling firm Zogby International, which is based in Utica, N.Y. “But it is more likely that this is it.”

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