LUNTZ’S FOCUS GROUP GIVES THE DEBATE TO MCCAIN. Watching Fox News now, Frank Luntz‘s focus group attendees said that John McCain impressed them most, especially by clarifying and moderating his position on immigration, and that Rudy Giuliani came off the worst, by being overly focused on New York during the debate.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.