Rassmussen is out with with its latest poll that shows Rudy still enjoys a 16 point lead, with 30 percent support; Fred Thompson and John McCain are tied for second at 14 and Romney is at 11.

One thing worth noting is that Giuliani bashers have argued that once voters learn more about his liberal stances on social views and his personal problems, his popularity will quickly sink. But Giuliani has already endured two months of negative news coverage (starting with the March 3 NY Times story about his son Andrew that MEM was beating like a proverbial dead horse for about a month and most recently with that Vanity Fair hit piece that accused him of being mentally ill) but his support has thus far shown itself to be pretty resilient.

In fact, Thompson's inclusion in the polling numbers seems to have eaten into his lead more than anything. In the last poll without Thompson, Giuliani had a 20-point lead, and one week later, with Thompson, it had dropped to 10 points. In the past month, it's crept back up.