 This issue caused former New York Mayor Ed Koch to take out ads telling Lazio to "stop with the sleaze already," and did not change the dynamic of the race.Some of Lazio's campaign strategists would later say that the "Cole"-based attack had backfired and became the campaign's biggest blunder.Clinton won the election on November 7 with 55 percent of the vote to Lazio's 43 percent, a difference larger than most observers had expected.