Letters to the Editor
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Wrongheaded
A Democrat winning an election in New York State is no magic trick. And, having spent my first 25 years in upstate New York, I can say that the author's description of it as a "Republican hinterland" is grossly overstated. The area is socially conservative in many ways, but old school Democratic New Deal sympathies run deep among the retired union folk of the dying rustbelt cities that dot the Erie Canal.
Listen, I have every confidence that in an HRC vs. Giuliani presidential race, she would win New York State again. Which is the least a Democrat should be able to do. No, for me the most telling sentence in this article is:
"At least 40 percent of Republican campaign funds would come from out-of-state Hillary haters in the 2000 Senate race, helping Giuliani outraise Clinton by 50 percent."
This is the key to HRC's unelectability in a general election. Right or wrong, this huge chunk of the electorate really do hate Hillary that much. And these denizens of the REAL Republican hinterlands are a far cry from the entirely reasonable people of Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Buffalo, and Utica.