Bad week for Giuliani… only the beginning?
by WonkoKevin
Could Rudy Giuliani’s Shaggate be the first big scandal of the 2008 campaign that has some stickiness? As you can see from the Wonkosphere buzz share graph below, Giuliani’s buzz share has increased since the story broke 2 days ago, especially amongst liberals who are hovering like sharks.
It’s not like it’s only the left–conservative bloggers are also buzzing on it. This comes at the tail end of a bad week for Giuliani in Wonkosphere. Check out the tone in both liberal (blue) and conservative (red) blogs; the gray band represents the average tone of buzz amongst all candidates. According to these data, bloggers are talking more negatively about Rudy now than any other candidate… although he has not yet reached the McCain line (tone = 0.05; McCain was below this for almost a week during August, post Iraq cafe story).
