Turns Out, Rudy COULD Fail
January 31, 2008 at 5:50 pm
With the end of Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign, it’s time to bid good riddance to the most over-worked easy headline in American political history: The Clash’s “Rudie Can’t Fail.”
Before turning our attention to The Clash’s far superior “The Guns Of Brixton” — clearly an homage to Ron Paul — let’s consider this fabulous fact from colleague Patrick Ottenhoff, the lovely and talented creator of The Electoral Map blog:
Some presidential trivia for the day — With Rudy out of the race, no New York City mayor for the last 140 years has been elected to another office after leaving City Hall.
richard said,
February 1, 2008 @ 1:15 pm
Prior to the 1890s, “New York City” did not include Brooklyn, which was lied into joining Manhattan to form Greater New York.