Giuliani Gets a Boost From Vice

Think Barry Goldwater. Or Ronald Reagan, a former spokesman for Chesterfield cigarettes.

No longer, of course. These days, the religious right is just as stern about mischief as the PC brigade on the left. More so, maybe.

Giuliani already has to explain to evangelical primary voters why he's pro-choice and pro-gay rights, and he can be seen on YouTube wearing a dress and fooling around with Donald Trump. How will they feel, say, about his gambling winnings?

Analysis of first-quarter fund-raising data turns up a lot of other interesting stuff for political junkies. Such as...

Senator Barack Obama may have given up cigarettes, but at faculty fund-raisers, he's smoking Hillary instead. If you are looking for proof that he has blown past Senator Clinton among the party's intelligentsia, look no further than political donations from the "people's republic" of Cambridge, Mass., home of Harvard. Obama raised $183,039 in Cambridge, twice as much as Hillary Clinton.

Of course, he was editor of the Law Review there 16 years ago and has a lot of friends on the faculty. Hillary went to Yale Law School. The problem? Obama edged her in Yale's town of New Haven, Conn., as well, outraising her by $32,223 to $26,450. He also beat her at Stanford University, by $25,772 to $18,100.

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