January
29
Rudy's Retreat
The New York Times sizes up what went wrong in the Giuliani campaign. In essence, it was built on his celebrity, but that couldn't sustain with the other candidates gaining all of the momentum coming out of the early states.
Giuliani all but ignored Iowa, invested heavily in New Hampshire but eventually pulled out of the state and then focused almost entirely on winning Florida.
Much of this is hindsight --- but it is perhaps a lesson learned when looking at national polls with six months to a year out. And it is confirmation that momentum matters.
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