The GOP-controlled New York Senate is ready to take on Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer in a campaign to save their majority--and they're using new technology and an old game to win.

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The GOP-controlled New York Senate is ready to take on Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer in a campaign to save their majority--and they're using new technology and an old game to win. They've set up a website, www.nyinjeopardy.com to lambaste Democrats they think are beatable in a Jeopardy-like game of deadly serious politics. The site takes "a humorous approach about very serious shortcomings" of 10 Senate Democrats whose "rhetoric in the district does not match up with their votes in Albany," says Matthew Walter of the New York Republican State Committee. Spitzer has been plotting his takeover of the Senate since he tapped Republican Senator Michael...

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