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New York Sen. Hillary Clinton may be the star of the national Democratic Party, but her constituents back home say it's actually her New York colleague, Sen. Charles Schumer, who's doing the better job. According to a poll released Wednesday by Strategic Visions LLC, 59 percent of New Yorkers approved of the job Schumer was doing, with just 30 percent disapproving. That's better than the allegedly wildly popular Sen. Clinton, whose approval rating was 3 points lower than Schumer's, and whose disapproval rate was 2 points higher. In another blow to the notion that Hillary Clinton is New York's most...

RUSH: So Howard Dean's out in San Francisco, and he opens his mouth, and he continues to put his foot in it. He goes on the Today Show today to defend it, and you've got stories, "Well, there's some Democrats out there, 'Ah, he shouldn't be saying this kind of stuff.'" You don't see anybody making a move to get rid of him, do you? You don't. In fact, you've got a lot of Democrats like Bill Richardson saying, "Well, you know, these are the kind of things... You know, he's doing a good job as a chairman. Sometimes he's...

Hip-hop honcho Russell Simmons said yesterday that Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean isn't doing as well with African-Americans as his GOP counterpart, Ken Mehlman. "When it comes to reaching out to poor people and minorities, I think there's no enthusiasm on Howard's part," Simmons told the New York Daily News. By contrast, said the rap mogul, RNC chief Mehlman "shows a real willingness to listen." Simmons' comments come just four months after Dean blasted the GOP for its supposed inability to attract minorities. Addressing a meeting of black Democrats in February, Dean joked: "You think the Republican National Committee...