He just announced it this morning, immediately upon learning it last night. Personally, judging from his complete indifference to campaigning upstate, I think he's going to use this as the unimpeachable reason he's been looking for to pull out of the Senate race. And then hope that, after a full recovery (the disease is reportedly in a very, very early stage), he can run for the governorship in four years, which is the job he really wants. Someone asserted recently that he can legally bank that 18 million dollars he's collected -- all of it gathered before he was a declared candidate -- and use it to run for governor.
So Hillary wins by default? And perhaps also a good opportunity for left wing third parties, who won't have to defend themselves as hard against the charge of letting in the right.
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com