By Larry Fish, with staff contributions

Campaign fatigue has arrived. At a mayoral forum yesterday, John Street and Sam Katz both failed the cranky test in front of a room of 50 senior citizens.

The meltdown came at the Action Alliance of Senior Citizens forum after Street had been hammering away at Katz's "Republican" stance on public schools. Before Katz could respond, an agitated senior citizen who'd waited 30 minutes to ask a question shot out of her seat, screaming.

"Just a second," Katz pleaded.

"I have a question!" the woman hollered.

"Either I'm going to respond, or I'm going to go," Katz calmly threatened.

The woman persisted: "If we can't ask questions, come election time, we might just stay home."

Seeing Katz struggle, a chivalrous Street stepped in. He began to lecture the seniors about wasting the candidates' time.

"We have tried to cooperate with a lot of people doing forums. We have said over and over again: We're better off if you take a half-hour of my time here, and a half-hour of Sam's time there, then you get us for an hour," Street explained.

"We have limited time. And both of us have another appointment. When you ask us to both come for a half-hour at the same time, you limit the amount of exposure you have to both of us."

Sensing he might be coming off a bit too stern, Street softened his stance: "We love you, we respect you, but we're just up against it."

Katz quickly jumped in with a warm fuzzy of his own.

"And the nice thing is, we love and respect each other," Katz said, giving Street a little hug that drew applause and laughter from the crowd.

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Star search results: No clear winner

"In 1974, when my opponent was running for governor, he said that public education in the state needs less money, not more money," Street said.

Huh? Katz ran for governor in 1994. In 1974, he was just 24 years old.

Street wasn't running for anything in 1974, either; he was 31.

And today he turns 57, making him a Libra.

Philadelphia astrologer Lorraine Liquori, owner of Professional Psychics, has prepared charts on both Street and Katz.

According to the stars, which appear to mesh neatly with the polls, the election is still too close to call, Liquori says.

First, a bit of a disclaimer: Liquori admits to "a little bias" in Street's favor, based on her reading of both men's birth signs. While Street's signs indicate someone destined "to be known for his career, to be in the spotlight," Capricorn Katz (born Dec. 28, 1949) "looks upon everything as a business deal."

Liquori said the relative position of the 10 heavenly bodies used in her business holds about the same mixture of good and bad indicators for both men around Nov. 2, the day of the election.

For Street, signs are terrific from now until next Tuesday, she says. But things deteriorate from there.

By Election Day, "the moon sign will be in direct opposition to Saturn. . . . What we're saying here is that there are going to be problems. It will be more difficult to be elected."

On the upside, she says, is "the position of Neptune, which is beautiful for him for realizing his dreams."

For Katz in the week ahead, "Saturn squares his Pluto," and that ain't good.

"This is going to be a time of profound exhaustion for him," Liquori said. "He may be dealing with coercive tactics or struggling with corruption and dishonesty at this time."

On the other hand, "Jupiter will be retrograding into Aries, and that will be good for him," she said.