Running for mayor of New York is different from taking on a statewide race.

She said the decision not to contest most statewide races this year was a strategic one.

In a statewide race, with many different media markets, the cost will be proportionately more.

It is not just statewide races that have become expensive.

After all, he has won a statewide race in Texas twice.

The party announced candidates in about 22 statewide and local races.

A similarly large group is gathering to run in the next statewide races, which will not take place until 2006.

But a statewide race presents a very different political landscape.

The city itself votes even more Democratic than it traditionally has in statewide races.

But no black candidate has won a statewide race in New York.