"We've been getting great results and we've started a telephone campaign in the north."

The efforts include door-to-door drives, mass e-mailings and telephone campaigns intended for select groups of voters.

It has organized huge overnight telephone campaigns directed against lawmakers on the day of crucial votes.

Some have also engaged in telephone campaigns or visited influential political and scientific figures.

She pulled back from her desk and ran into the back room where her newspaper's circulation manager was working on a telephone campaign.

Altogether, a broader telephone campaign, which began Thursday and was to continue for an undisclosed time, was expected to reach 500,000 people.

A telephone campaign will begin Tuesday, he said.

Since Tuesday, he has converted those long-range plans into an extensive and immediate telephone campaign to shore up support.

There were reports last night that the News had begun an aggressive telephone campaign to persuade readers to buy subscriptions.

Mr. Lazio's aides said he had not been consulted about the telephone campaign, and at first the candidate seemed to distance himself from it.