Giuliani, weeks and points behind, starts N.H. TV ads

Fourteen-thousand-five-hundred ads and $10.2 million behind Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani goes up with his first television ads of the GOP presidential campaign in New Hampshire today.

With his heroic 9/11 exposure, of course, the former New York mayor has benefited enormously nationally in name recognition over the former Massachusetts governor, who's built poll leads in Iowa and New Hampshire anyway and a developing conservative personality in South Carolina. Giuliani, who has been buying radio ads and direct mail already, is counting on riding out an initial Romney surge in early states and coming on strong in later states like Florida.

The new 60-second ad, which will air for about six days at a cost of more than $300,000, shows Giuliani looking straight into the camera. "I've been tested in a way in which the American people can look to me," Giuliani says.

"They're not going to find perfection, but they're going to find somebody who has dealt with crisis almost on a regular basis and has had results. And in many cases, exceptional results. Results people thought weren't possible."

A new CBS/New York Times poll yesterday shows Giuliani trailing Romney in New Hampshire 16-34.

-- Andrew Malcolm

Comments

[Tannim]

More of the saem from Guliani: 9/11. Crisis. Fear. Blah blah blah.

Is that the best he can do? Does he have anything else or better: Yes, no, and no.

That's why he shouldn't be elected. He's running on the politics of fear and has no plan or vision. He's more of the same old same old, and we need a new direction.

RP08!

[Jake]

I disagree with the previous comment. Yes, Giuliani is running with 9/11 as a prominent part of his image, but the point of his ad is not that he helped NYC weather 9/11. The point of the ad is that he helped rebuild the city from the unfortunate place it was in the 80's to the booming, prosperous and great place that it is today. to say that he is running on fear is to ignore all of the work he has done for the city. and, if he can make it there, he can make it anywhere