Giuliani’s Financial Problems
After the fold you can watch a video about Rudy Giuliani’s main problem: money. It may sound strange considering the fact that for the most part of last year he was one of the best fundraisers among Republicans, but it’s like it is. He can’t pay some of his staffers anymore – they’re working as if they’re volunteers – and has let some of them go.
He’s not campaigning very hard in South Carolina, nor in Michigan. He’s completely focusing on Florida: not because he wants to, but because he can’t afford to campaign hard, it seems, in any other state.
Here’s the video:
I agree with Olbermann: it sounds a bit awkward that Giuliani has already run out of money considering that he said that he would focus completely on Florida. Has he spent so much already on Florida (or other states)? On the other hand, this doesn’t mean that he’s dead: as Olbermann points out, all the candidates – except for Huckabee – have had to let staffers go, pull advertisements or have asked staffers to work for free.
His tax cuts plan is actually very interesting and deserving of more attention. I’ll spend some attention to it later this weekend.
Millbank on fiscally responsible candidates: he’s right. It seems that the truly fiscal conservative candidates aren’t too popular right now. There are voters who want to hear candidates talk about how much they’ll spend extra, and there are voters who want to hear candidates talk about how much taxes they will cut. But somehow, it seems, voters don’t seem to care much about the balance.
Or, perhaps they do, but the media and politicians conveniently ignore it.
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