That was the advice to political reporters from Rudy Giuliani campaign manager Mike DuHaime and chief strategist Brent Seaborn nowadays. "The first big treasure trove is Florida,” said DuHaime, noting that Florida’s 57 delegates will be awarded winner take all. soon after comes Feb. 5, where a whopping 1,038 delegates are at play and winner take all states include the Giuliani strongholds of New York, New Jersery, Connecticut and Delaware.

"We are the only candidate on Feb. 5 who has a

large number of delegates that we essentially can count on coming our way,” DuHaime said.

While careful not to imply Rudy is writing off or diminishing Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina, team Rudy wanted to stress their longer term strength. Can Rudy go zero for three heading into Florida and still win? Yup, his campaign said, while touting his strength in IA and SC and suggesting several candidate could well divide up those earliest states.

Original post by Adam Smith