Rudy on Turnout and Losing Florida

Following the news that nearly 7% of Florida voters have already voted, the Giuliani campaign is hoping that means Rudy's weeks of campaigning there payed off. Very possible, except Giuliani is several points behind McCain and Romney in the RCP Average.

At an event in Little Havana, Rudy addressed those hopes:

"But we campaigned more vigorously during that period than anyone else and I think we will get our fair share of that vote. And now what we are doing is trying to get our vote out," he added. "We know we have a very good organization here, we've been putting this organization together for quite some time."

According to the campaign, over 30 percent of the GOP absentee voters and over 30 percent of the GOP early voters in this primary did not vote in either the 2006 or 2004 state primaries, so there is a high level of new voters participating in this year's process.

Rudy also talked, again, about what losing Florida would mean for his candidacy:

"Well my goodness, two or three days before an election you don't talk about what happens if... You talk about winning the election," he said. "These people who you see today want me to win this election, and this is a turnout election, so the enthusiasm the people have has a lot to do with that. So we are gonna talk about winning the election. We're positive we are gonna win, we are sure that these efforts are gonna work."



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