51.   Strangely, the Republican strategy sounds like a revenge match of a Denver mayoral race almost a decade ago.

52.   Surveys of voters leaving the polls Tuesday and after the previous two mayoral races show no sign that New Yorkers are changing appreciably.

53.   That is meant as a dress rehearsal for the mayoral race.

54.   The arrangement between the two men has implications for the mayoral race and the senatorial race.

55.   The current mayoral race has further stoked the anxieties of party members.

56.   The early contours of the mayoral race appear to be taking shape.

57.   The implication that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had established a climate in which rogue cops felt emboldened to assault civilians became an issue in the mayoral race last year.

58.   The logo even became an issue in the recent mayoral race.

59.   The most visible is the Democratic mayoral race in Hartford.

60.   The nail-biting suspense of the New York mayoral race just passed me by.