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Article: Mayors Giuliani, Bloomberg hope NY City Hall is on the road to the White House
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- October 31, 2007
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Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, back-to-back mayors of New York, use nearly identical sales pitches as they try to market themselves to a nation often wary of city folks.
Being New York City mayor "is about as good a preparation for being president as exists," Giuliani said one morning last spring in Houston, Texas. Bloomberg coincidentally was across town delivering a similar message that same day. Giuliani, he said, "couldn't have been more right. I could not have said it better myself."
Two months before the first presidential primaries, Giuliani is nursing the front-runner's position among the Republican candidates. Bloomberg is considering whether ...