Will Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani actually compete in the
Iowa GOP’s Straw Poll?  Over the past couple of days, speculation has
emerged over whether or not the former New York City mayor will actually compete
in the Iowa GOP’s Straw Poll in August, or even compete in the state at all.



Yesterday, Mike Glover of the Associated Press reported on the “mixed-signals”
coming from the Giuliani campaign about competing in Iowa, not just in the Straw
Poll but in the January caucus as well.  In response to the story, the
campaign responded with comment to Mike Allen of The Politico, saying “It would be rather silly for us to spend the candidate’s time and campaign money on staff, office space, etc. in Iowa if we didn’t intend to play
there.”


Further efforts to quell the story came from Giuliani’s Iowa campaign adviser, former Rep. Jim Nussle, who posted on the news forum of the
major conservative blog Power Line emphasizing the infrastructure efforts for the caucuses the campaign has already put in place. However, the story doesn’t seem to be that simple.



Today, Kay Henderson of Radio Iowa spoke with the campaign and reported that the campaign would make a decision within 20 days about competing in the August Straw Poll.



So, will he be seriously competing or not? And if so, will it be in one, the other, or both?