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...race between the two Democrats--former State Secretary for Environmental Affairs Evelyn Murphy and State Sen. Gerard D'Amico (D-Worcester)--ends tomorrow. Republican Nicholas Nikitas, a Reagan appointee to two commissions on education, is unopposed in the Republican primary...
Although D'Amico, boasts many labor endorsements, recent polls have given Murphy the lead. The latest poll gives her 44 percent of the vote and D'Amico 23 percent...
...Amico and Murphy have run unusually bitter campaigns, splitting alliances and endorsements. The governor, despite political ties to both, has admonished them for wrangling, while refusing to grant his sanction to either candidacy...
...absence of strong ideological differences, images have become important: D'Amico's campaign has presented him as the rumpled, savvy pol with working-class roots and a common touch. Murphy plays the polished administrator, decisive and effective in the practice of a traditionally male profession...
...Amico's campaign literature portrays him as a rumpled, no-nonsense liberal opposing a "yuppie" candidate with overly close ties to business interests...