Hillary v. Giuliani?

According to the NYT today, "Hillary Clinton leads the Democratic field with 51 percent of the vote. She beats Barack Obama by 24 percentage points among black Democrats. She is projected now to beat Giuliani – or at the very least to be in a statistical dead heat with him in the general election."

And that's assuming that Giuliani will be the Republican canidate [I don't know who Republicans would vote for in that general election...or maybe they just wouldn't vote at all]. As for the Giuliani factor, Politico published an article direct from the Clinton campaign's mouth, declaring that "Clinton can beat Giuliani — and that, in fact, she already has." Says Mark Penn, Clinton's chief strategist, referring to the 2000 Senate race, "We started in New York about seven or eight [percentage points] behind; when he dropped out we were seven or eight ahead. We have gone through a cycle with Giuliani." The thing is that Giuliani's official excuse for dropping out was a bout with cancer. But that doesn't change the fact that she had already gained fourteen or sixteen points on him....

And although I doubt her choice of accessories from time to time, Hillary is lookin' good, at least for the Democratic primary.