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Article: Senator Clinton? Don't open the office yet; She must overcome high negatives and early missteps to win the New York.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 26, 1999
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Realistically, can she win?
So far, Hillary Rodham Clinton's performance coming out of the starting blocks has mainly produced nagging doubts about her readiness for a high-profile Senate campaign.
While she made clear this week that she does intend to run, she's lagged behind her likely Republican opponent, the feisty, firebrand mayor of New York, for months now. Her campaign trail is strewn with political faux pas. And her will-she-or-won't-she equivocating has so infuriated New York Democrats that some have publicly urged her to just forget it.
It's a "high-risk campaign," says New York pollster John Zogby. "She can win, but it's quite ...