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...explosive creativity" of the American adolescent. (His plan for exterminating Saddam Hussein is to "drop 1,000 American Adolescents with boom boxes in Baghdad or Teheran.") And he talks about how taking attendance at McKee Vocational and Technical High School sounded like "light opera: Adinolfi, Buscaglia, Cacciamani, DiFazio, Esposito, Gagliardi, Miceli...
This year, though, Weicker is caught in the middle. With Moffett, a liberal's liberal, on the left and Conservative Party candidate Lucien DiFazio on the right, the middle of the road is a delicate line. Being moderate, Weicker says, used to mean fence-sitting. Now it means "getting it from both sides...
...Weicker, whose slogan has been "Nobody's Man but Yours," has countered by pushing his image as an unbossed maverick, a legitimate characterization. The polls have offered contradictory predictions. And there is also an X factor confusing everyone's calculations: the presence of Conservative Party Candidate Lucien DiFazio, who is positioned to siphon off some of Weicker's support. "If DiFazio pulls 7%," said a Democratic campaign strategist last week, "it's Toby...
...disillusioned Democrats. Now he is wooing traditional Republicans by claiming that an independent Republican is better than no Republican at all. Says he: "I think I'm a very good Republican, because, No. 1, I get elected." Whether he does so again could depend on Conservative Candidate Lucien DiFazio, 39, a Hartford lawyer who entered the race only nine weeks ago. Although DiFazio has no chance of winning, he has substantial financial backing from the New Right and might siphon off votes from Weicker. With Weicker leading Moffett by only a few points in the polls, even a small...
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