Rudy Won't Commit To Playing In Ames Straw Poll

[AlCzervik]

April 03, 2007

Rudy Won't Commit To Playing In Ames Straw Poll


CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Making his campaign debut in this first-in-the-nation state, Rudy Giuliani sounded a note of uncertainty when he was asked about his plans for the important Ames Straw Poll.

"We'll have to take a look at that," Giuliani said at the end of the press conference following his neighborhood tour here. Asked again if he intended to play in the Iowa GOP-sponsored event in August, Giuliani added, "We're definitely going to participate."

But Giuliani spokeswoman Maria Comella later confirmed the campaign's indecision about the straw poll.

"We're not going to make a commitment at this point in time," Comella said.

A closely-watched test of organizational strength in this state that candidates spend thousands on to woo voters, the straw poll has had a winnowing effect in past Republican presidential contests. In 1999, now-Sen. Lamar Alexander withdrew from the race after finishing well back in the straw-poll pack and former VP Dan Quayle saw his hopes crushed with an eighth-place Ames finish.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0407/Rudy_Wont_Commit_To_Playing_In_Ames_Straw_Poll.html

[madrchsod]

1. he sleeps with a puppy killer

won`t go over big in iowa....