Libby Copeland with the snow birds: BOCA RATON, Fla. — The best place to meet the Floridians who could save Rudy Giuliani's hide is here at the Flakowitz Bagel Inn, where just about everybody is from New York, and just about everyone remembers how the former mayor either: (a) cleaned up their city, or (b) turned out to be a real jerk.
"He's a very, very smart guy," says Carl Liss, 79, a transplant from Queens who's sitting at the long counter, eating a bagel with low-fat cream cheese. (Cholesterol. Heart condition.) "I personally wouldn't vote for him."
"I don't like him," says a woman sitting a few seats down the counter.
And check out these Testy Copy Editors staring across the divide.
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