NY Elected Hillary because Guiliani was diagnosed with cancer 4 months before the election and had to withdraw. Guliani was even with Clinton at that point, and the candidates had not yet staged a debate. The Republican party then offered up inexperienced Rick Lazio who never had a prayer (though it should be noted that he did kick the beast's ass in the debate -she is an awful public speaker). If the NY Republican party had listened to me and asked Al D'amato to run, he could have beaten her. Contrary to popular FR perception, there WERE a lot of NYers that were very put-off by her carpet-bagging. Now, she is firmly entrenched, and I am afraid the ONLY candidate that can beat her is Guliani. Once again, there are a lot of liberal NYers, but a lot of them don't vote. And a lot of them won't vote in the 2004 election. I mentioned one reason. Another is that Rev. Sharpton is going to do everything in his power to get the minority vote pissed off at the Democrat candidate.