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HILLARY. New York state has embraced her. Will the rest of the country if she runs for president?
The Chicago Tribune ^ | May 21, 2006 | Lisa Anderson

Posted on 05/21/2006 8:31:39 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

ELMIRA, N.Y. -- As "New York, New York" so famously promises, if you can make it there you can make it anywhere. Hillary Rodham Clinton may soon put those lyrics to a presidential test.

With little question that she will win re-election to the Senate this fall, a larger question looms: If Clinton turned numbers of skeptical and sometimes openly hostile upstate New Yorkers significantly in her favor, could she pull off the same thing nationally in a 2008 run for the White House?

Seven years ago, when she began her Senate campaign, many residents of this hard-pressed Finger Lakes region considered Clinton the political equivalent of the Wicked Witch of the West. Older women, particularly, acidly criticized her as domineering, arrogant, ambitious and oblivious to blue-collar concerns--not to mention unable to rein in her philandering husband.

During her first term as the state's junior U.S. senator, Clinton hardly has morphed into Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. But the Democrat has shed much of her image as a broom-riding carpetbagger and gained more than a little respect and appreciation in some of the most conservative corners of the state.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: billygoatswife; clinton; craiglivingstone; hillary; hillary2008; hillaryclinton; lesbianqueen; pilesofbodies; rosiespal; vincefoster; whereschelsea
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To: Smartass

Kangaroo commission, LOL.


81 posted on 05/22/2006 9:26:43 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: nightdriver
She could if enough people think like my idiot neighbor.

He told me "..I'd vote for Hillary for president because, unlike Bush, she's an anti-communist!"

Who do you think's been voting Dim for the last 30 or 40 years! LOL

I've come to one concrete conclusion about those that have pulled the lever for liberal Dims over the years: They're either utterly intellectually lazy or have absolutely no clue about human, world, and U.S. history in the context of human nature.

82 posted on 05/22/2006 9:28:11 PM PDT by Fruitbat
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To: potlatch
Prime Choice...what-a-guy!
83 posted on 05/22/2006 9:31:19 PM PDT by Smartass (Vaya con Dios - And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I really don't care who the voters of New York choose to elect as their senator. On the other hand, if she runs for president, I will do anything and everything legally possible to prevent that from happening.


84 posted on 05/22/2006 9:41:10 PM PDT by Bob
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To: b4its2late
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85 posted on 05/23/2006 8:28:35 AM PDT by b4its2late (If it's treason, there's no doubt a democrat is standing behind it.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan; All
A HILLARY 'LANDSLIDE'??? NOT SO FAST, MISSUS CLINTON....



86 posted on 12/07/2006 6:52:56 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: angkor
Precisely!!

WILL HILLARY CLINTON RUN?
COMBINATORIAL GAME THEORY MAY PROVIDE THE ANSWER




87 posted on 12/07/2006 6:55:20 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: sageb1

Ditto from this one too!! She may think she has "won the heart of New Yorkers" but the only ones that love her are the ones south of Albany...freakin' Westchester county is responsible for that B!^ch being in the Senate....


88 posted on 12/07/2006 6:58:05 PM PST by SAMS ("I may look harmless, but I raised a U.S. MARINE!" Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: new yorker 77
She has no idea how everyone she met that day truly detested her and would never vote for her.

That's an interesting observation. I wonder how far from reality she is, surrounded as she is by yes-men and girls too intimidated to make eye contact.

89 posted on 12/07/2006 6:59:03 PM PST by Silly (Still being... Silly)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

She can't win in the South. ;)
She would have to do "Pretty in Pink" all the time. Proper make-up, manicure, BIG hair, pearls, impeccable manners. She's a loser.
lol


MEOW!!


90 posted on 12/07/2006 7:05:07 PM PST by kalee (No burka for me....EVER!)
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To: kalee

I wish I had your confidence and trust me I am not a fatalist. All she needs is a Colorado or Ohio to swing her way. As far as your comment, I like what I see in the crowds at college football games :-)


91 posted on 12/07/2006 7:23:42 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: SmoothTalker
I want her to run. I think she'd get killed.

From your lips to God's ears.

92 posted on 12/07/2006 7:34:03 PM PST by WhirlwindAttack (Muck the Fuslims. And Lord strike down the toons too.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
(... compliments to "Dead")
93 posted on 12/07/2006 7:42:09 PM PST by Gritty (The sad reality is that never before has an enemy hidden in such plain sight - Mark Steyn)
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To: Hostage
How to overcome her?

Sunlight, Wooden Stakes and Holy Water?

94 posted on 12/07/2006 7:45:13 PM PST by WhirlwindAttack (Muck the Fuslims. And Lord strike down the toons too.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Oh, I wasn't speaking about the rest of the country, just the South. ;) Hillary is no Kay Bailey Hutchinson or Elizabeth Dole. She is too harsh in attitude and manner so I don't think she can win the South.
Granted we did send Cynthia McKinney to DC but that's one district in one state. lol I forgot about that other dingbat Sheila Jackson Lee from TX, make that two districts in two states. Neither of those would win state wide elections.


95 posted on 12/07/2006 9:57:12 PM PST by kalee (No burka for me....EVER!)
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