Kate, you say Rudy is showing strikingly weakness at 27 percent, because it means 70 percent of Republicans polled are saying no to him. Doesn’t that mean that Romney is even weaker because 89 percent of Republicans are saying no to him? And Thompson because 82 percent of Republicans naysay him? I mean, these guys have been running (yes, even Thompson) for many months now. If your argument is that Rudy is too famous to be getting only 27 percent, you’re presuming people who favor others in polls or have no opinion yet have decided against Giuliani. There’s no evidence for such a claim. He remains, nationally, the Republican with the highest favorability rating in the country. He’s been the frontrunner for a year now. In the history of Gallup polling, there’s never been a GOP candidate running in front on Labor Day who hasn’t taken the nomination.Jen Rubin may overestimate his appeal, but whatever he is, and he may indeed not prove to be the winner of this nomination, he isn’t “strikingly weak.”