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...battling prostate cancer and his wife just hired a fancy divorce lawyer--but it was a personal drama of operatic proportions, a thunderclap so loud that mere politics couldn't account for it. And Hillary Rodham Clinton may find that Giuliani's likely replacement, Long Island Congressman Rick Lazio, is a tougher opponent than Rudy would have been. Lazio is no titan, but he is young, genial, ethnic, Roman Catholic, suburban and unknown to most voters--just like George Pataki was when he whupped a titan named Mario Cuomo in New York's 1994 gubernatorial race. "Hillary was better...
...Pataki on down were publicly supporting Giuliani while privately worrying about who would replace him. Some Republicans dream that Pataki might get into the race--the popular Governor would be the favorite against Hillary--but he has shut down such talk. That makes the odds-on favorite Representative Rick Lazio, the tousle-haired Long Islander who wanted to challenge Giuliani for the nomination until Pataki made him back off. If Giuliani steps aside, says the Pataki adviser, "it's gonna be Rick. All the other names are bulls___." Those names include Peter King, the voluble Congressman who last week...
...Friday, Giuliani said he had fallen behind on his consultations with doctors, raising the possibility that he would cancel a California fund-raising trip. And press reports had the mayor arranging a secret meeting with Lazio--another ominous sign for Giuliani supporters. These days in New York, the Rudy Watch never stops...
...Rick Lazio is still unknown enough to be dubbed "candidate" in the New York Times headlines announcing his fill-in run for ailing mayor Rudy Giuliani - and he's already got almost a third of the vote. A Zogby poll of New York voters conducted Friday night and Saturday had Hillary Clinton at 46 percent and Lazio at 32 percent. And that was before Lazio officially jumped into the nationally watched U.S. Senate race Saturday night with a hometown-boy-makes-good rally in the gym of West Islip High School on Long Island, where Lazio graduated in 1976. Then...
...race, as they say, is on, although you wouldn't know it from Hillary's heart rate. While her staffers hit the airwaves touting Lazio's ties to Newt Gingrich, Clinton steadfastly refuses to get riled, well aware that any public snarling won't win her the new support she needs to break through what may be a mid-40s numbers ceiling. "Clinton is dealing with an anti-Hillary, anti-Clinton vote that could limit her numbers," says TIME New York correspondent Elaine Rivera. "She can't afford to make any more enemies, especially upstate." Lazio, on the other hand...