Hillary Clinton Again Looks Upstate for Win in New York

[Surya Gayatri]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/us/politics/hillary-clinton-again-looks-upstate-for-win-in-new-york.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region



Hillary Clinton’s political ascent can be traced to the time in 1999 when she expressed her support for dairy farmers in the upstate New York village of Endicott. And the summer that year when she shunned Martha’s Vineyard to vacation in Skaneateles, and promised voters in the depleted industrial city of Schenectady that as a New York senator she would revive the upstate economy.

The strategy helped Mrs. Clinton win her 2000 Senate race by double digits, a victory fueled by the unlikely support of white working-class voters in upstate New York who had previously voted Republican but were won over by the first lady’s attention to their underserved area.

Defending her economic record, Mrs. Clinton has said the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Great Recession and a Republican administration prevented her, as a freshman senator, from fulfilling her jobs promise. “We had a very difficult situation with the Bush administration,” she said Monday in an interview on “Capital Tonight,” an upstate cable news program.

Joan Shearin, 65, a retired respiratory therapist from Batavia, like many local Democrats, spoke fondly of Mrs. Clinton’s time in the Senate. “When something needed to be done, she was doing it,” she said. “She never hid herself.”

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She certainly won't win by double digits this time around, but she should make an honorable showing in upstate NY.

[baldguy]

2. The majority of Democrats - and the majority of *people* - in NY like Hillary.

She's some who came to NY and worked hard to build that support - and delivered on it.

Sanders is someone who left the state a lifetime ago because he couldn't stand it.