Senate Race Could Be One of Dirtiest Ever ; Lautenberg, Zimmer Share Mudslinging Track Records

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Now the mud will fly.

U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg and his Republican challenger, congressman-turned-lobbyist-turned-candidate Dick Zimmer, will spend the next five months stressing differences, but both share one ignominious distinction: They are among the most ruthless practitioners of negative campaigning in New Jersey history and according to one expert, the nation's history.

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Senate Race Could Be One of Dirtiest Ever ; Lautenberg, Zimmer Share Mudslinging Track Records

"It's going to be a cage match between two New Jersey politicos who like it rough and nasty," said Kerwin Swint, a political science professor at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta.

Swint's 2006 book, "Mudslingers: The...

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