Hopefully, one of the other challengers gets another party’s line. Remember, New York has fusion and 8 ballot-qualified parties. If the Independence Party or teh Serve America Movement (SAM) Party would cross-endorse one of Occasional Cortex’s liberal-to-left challengers, it might help pave the way for a moderately conservative candidate to win.
She will still get the much larger Liberal line, unless she stepped on the wrong toes, which is entirely possible. Remember Jacob Javits (lefty Republican ran on the Liberal Line to deny Liz Holtzman a Senate Seat, allowing Al D’Amato to be the most conservative NY Senator since James Buckley)