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...have the energy or desire to get an absentee ballot for your home state, we have one of the hottest Senate races in the country right here in Massachusetts. Junior Senator John Kerry is having a tough time with challenger and Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld '66. To this point, the campaigns have been marked by heavy advertising on Weld's side with only recent rebuttals from the Kerry camp, and by what may seem to be an endless series of debates between the candidates. They might not be constantly scintillating, but a recent exchange about Weld's education record...
While many Americans have tuned out the presidential campaign, voters in Massachusetts are holding their breath, almost reluctant to choose between Democratic Senator John Kerry and Republican Governor William Weld in their race for the Senate. Massachusetts voters are feeling a little like children caught in a divorce. Instead of fighting, they ask, why can't the candidates just stay where they...
That's what Kerry would prefer, but it would deny the state a race that should be the envy of voters everywhere. The Kerry-Weld battle has it all: two strong candidates, seven debates, a serious discussion of issues like taxes and crime, even an agreement by both candidates to limit campaign spending...
...race has suspense as well. At the moment, Kerry is dead even with Weld in a traditionally Democratic state where Clinton leads Dole by more than 20 points. Kerry may have spent the past 12 years in the Senate, but he enjoys few of the advantages of incumbency. Instead, Weld is the candidate whose views and personality the voters know best. (They re-elected him in 1994 with 71% of the vote.) While Kerry is well regarded for chairing complex Senate subcommittee hearings on issues like drug trafficking in Central America and for leading the effort to track U.S. soldiers...
...Weld and his record are closer to home. He's the guy who took over a state that was demoralized and nearly bankrupt after Michael Dukakis' tenure and proceeded to balance the budget six years in a row while cutting taxes 15 times. More than Kerry, Weld is the candidate who can claim to have presided over an economy that is performing better than that of almost any other industrial state. In 1991, Weld's first year, Massachusetts' unemployment rate was one of the highest in the nation. Last week the state hit a seven-year low. "John's forte...