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I don't watch much prime time TV, but I do listen to WCBS AM news & both Mets & Yankees baseball, & I've heard no political advertisements on radio & seen only Chuck Schumer ads on TV. This is an advantage of being in the New York City market where media advertising rates are... expensive. No local congressional incumbents are in trouble, Sen. Schumer is a shoo in - he's a liberal to be sure but he's also been exposing weaknesses in metro New York's port & transit security since 9/11, & Kerry has to ride his coattails. I doubt if either presidential candidate's team really knows how to swing Jersey's few undecided votes to their side. So North Jersey hasn't suffered the continual, almost exclusively negative political advertising that is wearing down & angering people in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida & all those other big "swing states." During the baseball playoffs, I heard the Foxwoods Casino song every half-inning ("Life is good, life is sweet, grab yourself a front row seat..."), with the striking Atlantic City service workers getting in their message whenever a pitcher got yanked (basically, gamble at Trump's or go to Foxwoods). & I gotta say that John Pizzarelli, the great musician who wrote & sings the Foxwoods song really has trouble nailing the final note, which requires a downward interval of only a third. A vocal coach can fix that for ya, John.
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