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This is great news for the Duncan camp!

I tried to show the other day, by analyzing the GOP_USA poll results, how Duncan is arguably the strongest candidate out there, in a poll which measures voters perception of the candidates ON THE ISSUES.

Its just a matter of face time, air time, name recognition for Duncan to 'catch fire', and for dynamics to take over..

What happened here with McCain at the end is what statisticians would call...highly unlikely.

Don't let anyone try to downplay this, and spin the fact that Duncan had a couple people "camp out" there for a few weeks.

This is big for Duncan Hunter.

Remember, the Rudy folks have been telling everyone that Rudy was the only guy who could raise the kind of money necessary to compete on the national level against Hillary.

The rebuttal to that argument can be found by analyzing what each candidate SPENT here in SC, and what VOTES were produced. Remember, its all about VOTER TURNOUT...getting ALL the registered pubs out to the polls.

Look at the ratio of VOTES / DOLLARS SPENT.

Ill bet Duncan just blew everyone out of the water in this category.

Rudy's handlers are idiotic to think he can compete in SC. Rudy flopped all over the South as Nov 2006 proved. Not to mention Christian conservative Ralph Reed's defeat in Georgia after Rudy's heavy-handed endorsement. Conservatives weren't buying that liberal bag of wind.

As one FReeper astutely posted: "Rudy's done. I'm glad we got him out of the way quickly so he doesn't pollute the process."

Rudy's intrusion in GOP politics is an insult to social conservatives----the voters central to the Repub party's winning strategy. Rudy's got a history that makes one cringe.

A LOOK AT RUDY'S PAST IS A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE.

...as far back as 1993, when he ran for mayor of New York City, Giuliani was dogged by accusations that he pulled strings to avoid the draft. In fact, Rudy wangled a rare occupational deferment from serving in the Vietnam war in 1969, when he was a law clerk.

However, Rudy's scheming to get an occupational deferment is a far cry from present-day Rudy's assertions, that he opposed the Viet war on "tactical and strategic grounds."

Egocentric Rudy's "tactical and strategic grounds" blather is nothing but a naked attempt to pump his 2008 resume in the the absence of solid military credentials. In a Kerryesque-like statement, Giuliani once said of the Vietnam war, "I disagreed with it."

Anyone who dismisses the significance of Vietnam as a potential issue in the 2008 campaign is forgetting how surprisingly potent it proved in 2004, when there was enormous interest in the military records of both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.