Rudy Giuliani Crashes And Burns In Iowa

12:51 pm EST April 4th, 2007 | News | 13 Comments

Obama, Clinton and Edwards are all huge draws in Iowa. For the three of them it’s usually more an issue of less space than people. Rudy Giuliani, supposedly the Republican front runner can’t fill a high school gym.

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Rudy Giuliani and an empty high school gym

The couple hundred people listening in the high school gymnasium gave him a polite but hardly rip-roaring reception. A partition divided the gym to make it appear better attended than it was.

Dozens of those who showed up didn’t look old enough to vote. Handmade signs hung from a blue curtain behind the podium. Just before the candidate took the stage, a few in the audience tried to start a "Rudy, Rudy, Rudy" chant. It was a halfhearted effort that died quickly.

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13 Responses to “Rudy Giuliani Crashes And Burns In Iowa”

  1. Hedley says:
    April 4, 2007 at 1:12 pm

    And nearly every single recent national poll has Giuliani beating all three top Democrats, and all Republicans too for that matter.

  2. Oliver Willis says:
    April 4, 2007 at 1:14 pm

    That’s my point. How useful are polls over a year before an election when Giuliani can’t fill a high school gym?

  3. Duros62 says:
    April 4, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    Obviously, the people in those polls don’t live anywhere near Iowa. Reminds me of that classic Katherine Harris moment in an empty airplane hangar.

  4. z adura says:
    April 4, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    Interesting. I was at an Obama rally in Oakland, California that drew 10,000 people. He was treated like a rock star.

  5. Hedley says:
    April 4, 2007 at 1:26 pm

    Or, how useful is Iowa?

  6. mike in dc says:
    April 4, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    If McCain were to beat Rudy in Iowa, and Romney beats him in NH, that’s pretty much it. He’d have to win SC and then sweep on 2/5.

  7. Jay says:
    April 4, 2007 at 2:44 pm

    Oliver, Howard Dean was drawing thousands of people at rallies in 2003. We see how that worked out for him.

    So if a poll isn’t useful, neither is this.

  8. Rhys says:
    April 4, 2007 at 4:54 pm

    Jay, Dean lost out because too many Dems at the time gave in to the conventional wisdom of the right-leaning beltway pundits and went for the safe, middle of the road, candidate. And it got them nowhere.

    Having learnt their lesson to never take advice from one’s enemy, they put Dean in charge of the DNC, and he helped them sweep in 2006 by convincing Dems to ignore the right-wingers conventional wisdom.

    Dems learn from their mistakes. Repugs never do.

  9. Repack Rider says:
    April 4, 2007 at 9:24 pm

    nearly every single recent national poll has Giuliani beating all three top Democrats

    Giuliani terifies Democrats!

    Pleeeease don’t let him be the candidate!

    Oh, what WILL we do?

  10. idiosynchronic says:
    April 4, 2007 at 9:51 pm

    Hm. Even local news here didn’t show the mostly empty gymnasium. Faskinatin’.

    Probably no one here cares, but that rally for Rudy was in Republican-rich West Des Moines. If Rudy can’t fill that place in the subbies, the GOP has some serious enthusiasm issues.

  11. Eric Dondero says:
    April 5, 2007 at 5:27 pm

    The American people are not going to buy into the soft on Islamo-Fascism of Burack HUSSEIN Obama. Look what the Radical Muslims are doing to Europe. They are rampaging, burning Paris, threatening London. Now we’re even seeing them threatening Americans in cities like Minneapolis, and even killing Americans in Salt Lake City and Seattle.

    Americans won’t stand for a soft on Islamo-Fascism candidate like Hussein Obama, who wants to coddle terrorists.

  12. SpiderJ says:
    April 5, 2007 at 7:31 pm

    I just figured it out. The Conservative noise machine is nothing more than Mad Libs.

    “(Democrat Politician) is out to (verb) America. They are soft on (incendiary noun). The American people will not (verb) for such (noun).”

  13. Eric Dondero says:
    April 8, 2007 at 11:36 am

    Wrong! Gotcha. I ain’t no damned Conservative. I’m a Proud Libertarian. And I don’t want Islamo-Fascists coming into MY COUNTRY murdering Jews and other Innocent Americans, pushing to outlaw gambling, booze, prostitution, adultery and other civil liberties issues.