COCKROACH RACE PROMISES TO PREDICT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

COCKROACH RACE PROMISES TO PREDICT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

LIVINGSTON, N.J. (Wireless Flash) -- Will the outcome of a cockroach race predict who will become the Democratic party's presidential nominee? That's what the New Jersey Pest Control Association hopes to find out on Thursday (Aug. 19) at its 10th Annual Cockroach Derby. The group will race two Madagascar hissing cockroaches named "Al Gore" and "Bill Bradley" around a 6-foot-long track, and the outcome could predict which man will become the Democratic presidential candidate in 2000. Spokesman Alan Caruba claims the New Jersey Cockroach Derby is much more effective at picking candidates than other systems such as last weekend's Iowa Straw Poll. The last time two politically-named roaches ran in the New Jersey Cockroach Derby was in 1992, when a roach named Bill Clinton beat the George Bush roach handily.