A new Pew poll shows Rudy and McCain neck-and-neck. I’m not going to stick cotton in my ears every time there’s good news for McCain. But I’ll just note that this poll is a pretty big aberration from most other polls of Republican voters. And it was taken November 9-12 — right when McCain announced but before news of Rudy’s toes-in-the-water committee hit.

While we’re on the topic of Rudy, however, I can’t believe I missed this a while ago … RudyBlogger highlights a poll from Cook / RT Strategies that shows Giuliani’s numbers remain strong even when respondents are prompted regarding his views on social issues. I continue to think the social-issues question won’t kill Giuliani in the primaries. His personal life and characters like Kerik … well, we’ll see.