Mr. Abrams has saved his money for a television blitz in the final days before the Sept. 15 primary.

The owners began a television commercial blitz to promote the new station.

To conserve cash, he is holding back a full-fledged television blitz until the last days of the race, which polls say is very tight.

Formerly the head of a family supermarket chain, he used his own money for a television blitz with the slogan, "Nobody's senator but yours."

The poster campaign, to be joined by a television blitz, is a $3 million taxpayer-financed effort to persuade taxpayers to keep investing in bonds.

The Democrat is an underdog, but he plans to begin a heavy television blitz on Wednesday.

Some party officials now insist the "September storm" was never a firmly fixed plan, complete with campaign themes, schedules and television blitzes.

Campaign officials do not like talking publicly about the plans for television blitzes.

Some party officials said they had pressed for the campaign to approve a much more aggressive television blitz against Mr. Gore.

Yet the television blitz showed the zombie hero screaming: "Don't bury me!