Let history decide:
"Border wars in fight for presidency" by Garrison Nelson/Boston Globe November 3, 2007
ALTHOUGH IT is far too early to predict the presidential nominees, the front-runners - Senator Hillary Clinton and former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani - are poised for a toe-to-toe contest for the presidency.
If both are nominated, it will be the fourth time that New York presidential nominees will have faced off. Three such contests occurred from 1904 to 1944).
You know, that was a long, long time ago, and I just don't see this country nominating a couple of New Yawkers for president!
Told that only a southern democrap can win, and yet they are selling us Rudy and Hill?
With neither Hillary or Rudy having rarely been in the state, no less!
Pffffftttttt!!!!!!
No longer do New Yorkers dominate.
And yet we are going to get two of 'em! Pffffttt!
The last New York resident with a major party nomination was California-born Jack Kemp, vice president nominee on Bob Dole's ill-fated 1996 ticket. The last native New Yorker named on a major ticket was Democrat Geraldine Ferraro on the even more ill-fated Walter Mondale ticket of 1984.
The last native New Yorker president was Franklin Roosevelt (1933-45). The last vice presidential New Yorker was Maine-born Governor Nelson Rockefeller (1974-77) but he was appointed by President Gerald Ford and not elected.
What happened to New York? The first explanation is the New Hampshire primary. It emerged on the presidential landscape in 1952, when Eisenhower defeated US Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio in the Republican primary and US Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee ended President Harry Truman's reelection bid in the Democratic one. Ike went on to win the nomination and the election - the first of 10 consecutive New Hampshire primary winners to capture the presidency from 1952 through the 1988 victory of Vice President George H.W. Bush, thereby creating the legend of New Hampshire's primary. Only two New York-based candidates have won a New Hampshire primary - Texas-born Eisenhower in 1952 and California-born Nixon in 1968. New Hampshire voters prefer the New Yorkers they vote for to be transients.
O.K., so that does bode well for Hillary, the Arkansas (via Chicago) transplant.
Not for Rudy, though!
Does it matter? In the 218 years since 1789, the presidency has been held by WASP males for all but the three John F. Kennedy years, 1961-1963.
Wow, so that gets rid off a bunch of 'em.
Rudy, Mitt, Hillary, Barak.
None to be president, huh?
Then who could our next president be (in a fair election)?
If Clinton and Giuliani hold their poll leads, then New York State will not only have presented nominees to the nation after a long political drought, it will have diversified American politics dramatically for generations to come."
How diversified?
Clinton Crap
"Giuliani: "This may be one of the few areas in which I agree with Hillary Clinton.”
So RUDY AGREES WITH HITLERY, huh?
One of the few? How about abortion? Or illegal immigration?
Both of them BORN LIARS!
So who is going to win the nominations in New Hampshire?
Well, on the Republican side, the answer is pretty easy:
Ron Paul is the only candidate who MEETS the CRITERIA!!!
Especially considering N.H.'s maverick and independent streak!
On the Democrat side, it would be Dennis Kucinich!
"His strong rise in polls and his tough positions on health care and other issues make him a target... He's not only made it past the cut-off requirements... he's actually pulling strong in polling-- fourth place in New Hampshire, first place in the 100,000+ vote DFA poll. He's pulled to the top of the second tier in a a number of polls and in California's latest straw poll, he came in second, after Edwards, ahead of Obama and Hillary."
So here is your election night result, reader!
