Article: Battle of the Mean Machines: Can New York's Chuck Schumer Beat Al D'Amato at His Own Game?

Senator Pothole has a problem.

For the first time, the junior senator from New York, Alfonse M. D'Amato, has a challenger who plays politics as he does: tireless to the point of mania, armed with great wads of money and unashamedly eager to poke a stick in his enemy's eye.

The problem's name is Charles E. Schumer. He is the son of a Brooklyn exterminator, the smartest kid in his Flatbush high school, a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law, a state assemblyman at age 23 and a congressman from Brooklyn since he was 29. Now 47 and having never lost an election, Schumer is a center-left Democrat who disagrees with Republican D'Amato on virtually everything. Yet when it comes to the ...

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