Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* Rudy Giuliani, the pro-choice, pro-gay rights serial adulterer, will speak<\/a> at TV preacher’s Pat Robertson’s Regent University in April, the school announced yesterday. The news comes just one day after Regent announced that Mitt Romney will deliver the school’s commencement address on May 5.<\/p>\n * Speaking of Giuliani, religious right leader Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said this week that the former mayor’s position on social issues is a deal-breaker<\/a> in the GOP primaries. Land said “the vast majority” of social conservative voters will not vote for Giuliani even if he gets the nomination and faces off against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). “If he wins, he’ll do so without social conservatives,” Land said.<\/p>\n * John McCain is apparently prepared to skip tomorrow’s Senate vote on a resolution criticizing the president’s escalation strategy, and will instead appear at a town hall meeting Des Moines, Iowa.<\/p>\n * Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) may not have a lot of poll support, but he’s raising eyebrows with his fundraising prowess. “Among Democrats, Dodd’s $5 million campaign nest egg is surpassed only by that of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), who has one of the most elaborate fundraising machines ever assembled,” the WaPo reported<\/a>. “Dodd’s electoral riches can be traced to the banking panel, whose jurisdiction includes some of the wealthiest industries in America — banking, insurance and financial services.”<\/p>\n