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ter’s campaign manager said of Smith’s offer to debate. “We’re not going to provide him with a forum to do that.”
Mr. Likins admits that the challenge has been a serious one, but he does not believe Rep. Slaughter has been threatened.
“I think our chances of winning are very good,” Mr. Likins said. “I wouldn’t give David Smith as good a chance.”
The strategy that Rep. Slaughter announced in May appears, from where Mr. Likins sits, to have worked. Rep. Slaughter said then that he had no special strategy, and that he did not plan to face his first competition for the Seventh District seat. “I will just continue to do the best I can to represent the people,” Mr. Slaughter said in May.
Polling over Friday and Saturday nights will be tallied on Tuesday, Mr. Likins said, but the numbers will not be released. He would only say that “our numbers are continually very, very good.”
Like Smith’s campaign, the Slaughter camp believes that the budget deadlock in Washington has stirred voters’ passions. “People are mad as hell at Congress for not doing its job,” Mr. Likins said. “Fortunately, they are not mad at French Slaughter.”
Rep. Slaughter, who is 65, has never lost a race in a political career that spans three decades. He was
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