This discussion about special elections, cancelling elections, etc. are ridiculous. NJ cannot cancel its election for the Senate seat whose term expires in January of '03. The governor cannot appoint a new senator to fill the remaining term and delay the election. That term ends in January. Finally, Torch has NOT resigned his seat. He is not running for reelection! He is in the same position as Phil Gram. Bothe terms end in January. If Cornyn pulled out of the race at this point, Kirk would win Phil's seat unopposed.
The only way the Dems could retain this seat would be that they were able to put another candidate in for the Torch. It does not appear that they can.