Giuliani's playing all his cards, but many still don't like him

by Corina Ciubotaru

Rudy Giuliani's major campaign issues were his being a prostate cancer patient and his years as mayor of New York, and he makes sure he emphasizes these two facts everywhere he goes. Lately he's been taking pride in the fact that in America his he had a 74.4 percent chance of being cured of prostate cancer while in Britain, his chances would have been reduced to 44 percent. The allegation came from a study published by one of his advisers in City Journal, a magazine published by the Manhattan Institute, and was widely contested by doctors who claim the only reason an American would have better chances of living longer after a cancer diagnosis is that the US has better screening equipment; this allows the illness to be discovered sooner and thus gives patients better chances of survival. As for his argument of being mayor of New York for so long, it also seems like a bad choice because this function has still to guarantee somebody's victory in the elections. The idea that running New York City is the second hardest job in the USA has been used before by John Lindsay in 1972, who lost the elections. So it's not a good sign for Giuliani, who is not a much loved individual in New York or anywhere else, for his many affairs, his blunt nature and even for his management of the 9/11 situation. Still, he managed to get the biggest funding of all for his campaign from oil companies, hedge funds and private equity firms.

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