Gloves off in Buffalo
SO THE New York Senate race is going to be entertaining after all. If nothing else, the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Rick Lazio, in Buffalo on Wednesday, showed that Mr Lazio can give at least as good as he gets. Both candidates went for the jugular from the start, Mrs Clinton highlighting Mr Lazio's links with Newt Gingrich, Mr Lazio risking the laws of libel by suggesting that the First Lady was somehow connected to a man in Washington, DC, called Bill Clinton. At one point he even dared to call her “positively Clintonesque”.
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