Hillary essentially won the lottery when her opponent Rick Lazio walked toward her lectern in the debate and physically threatened the poor little woman who had already been put through so much by her cheating husband.
She would have won it anyway. No Republicans in NY State win state-wide elections. Pataki was the last (depending if you consider him a Republican). The stagnant pond that is NY State politics is evaporating, leaving an ever-increasing concentration of leftist residue. The State economy exists on Government, and Wall Street.