would al d'amato still be a senator if

[freepcrusher]

he hadn't been caught referring to schumer as a putzhead or had he ran out of luck anyways?

[nkpatel1279]

He ran out of luck. D'Amato was vulnerable to defeat due to series of scandals, his role as Chairman of the US Senate Banking Committee which oversaw Whitewater. He got unlucky in 1998 when he faced a formidable challenger in Schumer.

[Eraserhead]

Absolutely not.

[Keystone Phil]

Of course not. He never would have survived in 2004 if he even ran for re-election.

[I'm JewCon in name only.]

As much as I like D'Amato,  no he would not.

[krazen1211]

I figure he would have won in 2010 as an incumbent, though.

[freepcrusher]

the interesting thing about New York is that the ideas of conservative, moderate and liberal are out of proportion with the rest of the country. D'Amato was seen as a conservative republican (his lifetime ACU rating was in the high 50s low 60s) but only in comparison to his predecessor, Jacob Javits, who had a lifetime ACU rating of four.