Mayor to President?

From Taegan Goddard's Political Wire- http://politicalwire.com/archives/2007/02/16/mayor_to_president.html

"No United States senator has been elected president since John F. Kennedy in 1960, but former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani (R) is challenging an even more formidable historical hurdle: No former mayor has been elected president since Grover Cleveland of Buffalo in 1884 and Calvin Coolidge of Northampton, Mass., in 1924," reports the New York Times. "And no mayor has ever become president without serving first in some other elective office beyond City Hall."

"While New York's City Hall has, historically, been more diving board than springboard, Mr. Giuliani's candidacy presents several opportunities for optimism in this political campaign. He enjoys unusual national stature for a former city official at a time when being identified with New York might become a political advantage. In a field crowded with senators and governors -- including a woman, a black and a Mormon -- a former mayor could present himself as the ultimate beyond-the-Beltway outsider."

 

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Quotes of Note:

 

"You should be able to have a national campaign make a serious decision for president in nine weeks."

-- Newt Gingrich, quoted by Cox Newspapers.

 

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"How many good-looking presidents have we had?"

-- A strategist for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by Washington Wire, when asked about the significance of rival Mitt Romney's "matinee-idol visage."