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...country, as it turns out, is teeming - from New Jersey to Texas to Idaho - with Republicans who really, really don't like Hillary Clinton. And even though her challenger, Rick Lazio, hasn't exactly attacked the race with all guns blazing - preferring to leave his own image fairly blurry around the edges - he has nonetheless managed to capitalize nicely on the Hillary antipathy, attracting national attention and a war chest most candidates would kill...
...maybe we shouldn't be surprised. After all, anti-Clinton sentiment (directed at both Hillary and Bill) is alive and well and living in GOP checkbooks, and now that George W. has begun to show signs of weakness, many Republicans may figure Lazio is their last, best chance for revenge against the First Family...
...Notable: Reno takes another pass. NYT, breaking it: "Rejecting the recommendation of a top Justice Department investigator..." WP: "Planning to announce today that she has rejected the advice of a senior Justice Department official..." USAT, and WSJ, incredibly, pass. In other non-starter news, Lazio is spared the SEC's probe. What, no scandals this year...
...Lazio may see even less reason to risk going negative in this race, when his opponent's unfavorables may already be high enough to do her in. Otherwise reliably Democratic women were willing to vote for the otherwise unpalatable Giuliani because of their distaste for Hillary's assumption of derivative power, her high-handed bungling of health-care reform, her seeming deal with her husband for silence in exchange for career advancement, aggravated by the famous sight of their dancing on the beach in the Virgin Islands and, more recently, of her giggling like a newlywed after their first night...
...Lazio has ripped both Clintons over its price 4. According to the Supreme Court, the Boy Scouts can bar them from being troop leaders 8. The Gift of the Magi gift 11. Singer DiFranco 12. Orsk's river 13. "Later!" 14. The run-up to its election was tainted by violence 16. Bear up? 17. He's home at last 18. Applies with a Q-tip 20. U.S. Middle East mediator 23. Online brokerage firm that just went decimal 26. Nautilus sites 29. Stephen King beast 31. Day-__ 32. Prosecutors must tell his lawyer which nations they believe he tried...