Rudy's Obituary Already?

Over at The Appletonian, a fellow Penn blogger and long-time supporter of Rudy Giuliani recently wrote,

I'm not terribly optimistic. In all likelihood, Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid will come to a halt next Tuesday when he fails to win the Florida presidential primary.

Primarily, Rudy, for the past year has drawn almost all of the Democrats' collective fire. He was maligned in their presidential debates and castigated by the media for mentioning 9/11 too often. Instead of spreading their fire across the GOP field, Rudy was the brunt of jokes and attacks, keeping the rest of the GOP candidates relatively unscathed except for some relatively minor intra-party skirmishes.

Given the polls in Florida leading into today's Republican primary, it looks like Giuliani is finished although he might not drop out right away. Right now, it is a battle between McCain and Romney which looks like it will come down to the wire. If McCain can pull it off, he pretty much has the nomination locked up given his sizable national lead in the polls and the media love affair with his "maverick" status. Let me remind you that McCain is the one that says we will be in Iraq for the next 100 years and doesn't understand the economy.

A Romney win in Florida will prolong the race and keep things very interesting. So I guess that is what I'm rooting for.

~BT