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To: LindyBill who wrote (41907)	9/4/2002 11:23:17 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Came across this "Rundown" of your state race, John. The poll they quote shows 20% "undecided." Is this where you think it stands? Yep. Torricelli's polls roughly agree with that, at least as his crew comments publicly. To date, T has campaigned very shrewdly, very aggressively, and very expensively. He aired a TV apology repeatedly--if you watched TV at all, particularly news slots, it was almost impossible to miss. You could quarrel about some of it but I thought, over all, it was about as good as he would be capable of doing. The aim of those commercials, obviously, was to get the Senate charges addressed and, hopefully, to get them out of the campaign. We will, of course, see whether that worked. His second strategy, very aggressive, is to define Forrester as an agent of the drug industry and to push prescription drug legislation aggressively. Too early to tell if that's working but since F is an executive in a drug company, it might well do so. F has done little or nothing, best I can tell. I would not even recognize the man if I saw him, and, as you might guess, I follow politics fairly closely. I still think it's T's election to lose. His positions garner fairly large majorities in the state--gun control, pro-choice, environmental stands, drug prescription, etc. And Forrester, best I can tell, comes out of the farther right wing of the Rep party. Gonna be a fascinating fall. The race that interests me at the moment is the Texas race to replace Phil Gramm. The Dem is doing surprisingly well, last I read.