On Thursday, Rudy Giuliani will be attending a rally for New Jersey State Senate and State Assembly candidates in Manalapan.

If Team Rudy wants to make the case that their man can put blue states in play – and is there any state better suited for Giuliani than Jersey, filled with people who fled the city during the Koch and Dinkins years? – then it might be nice for him to point to a few state senators and assemblymen who can say, “in a tight race in 2007, Rudy Giuliani helped put me over the top.”