This is a good one. Rudy Giuliani, who's preparing to decide whether he'll seek the GOP Presidential nomination in 2008, is downplaying the Dem victory in the midterms and claiming the election was very close, the Associated Press is reporting:

Former New York mayor and possible 2008 presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani has downplayed the Democrats' US election sweep of last week, describing the outcome as "real close."

"I don't see this election, any more than the one two years ago or the one four years ago, as a defining election," the New York Times quoted Giuliani as saying over the weekend in a speech at Pennsylvania's Wilkes University.

Giuliani, who's looking to persuade GOP primary voters that his social liberalism shouldn't disqualify him from earning the party's nomination, aggressively campaigned and raised money on behalf of some two dozen Republican candidates, according to the New York Times, which originally broke the story of Giuliani's comments today. Most of those candidates lost.