Six years ago, &to=http://english.pravda.ru/main/2000/10/06/123.html' target=_blank>Hillary Rodham Clinton was being roasted as a carpetbagger from Illinois and Arkansas via the White House who would get her comeuppance at the hands of the mayor of New York City. Today, she appears to be coasting to a 2006 Senate re-election victory that could set her up for a White House run two years later.
"It's the difference between night and day," said Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson on Tuesday. "It's the difference between being a sitting first lady running in a state she had never lived in, to being a successful senator representing New York."
Independent polls have shown Clinton with solid approval ratings and far ahead of the potential Republican competition. She also has a ton of money in the bank _ about $14 million (Ђ11.74 million) as of the end of September.
It also doesn't hurt that the state's tumultuous Republicans don't have a Rudolph Giuliani-like candidate waiting to take her on, the way they did for a while in 2000. The Republicans can't agree on a candidate, period.
On Monday, the leaders of the state's &to=http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/15339_hillaryclinton.html' target=_blank>Republican Party told Jeanine Pirro, the former first lady's best-known possible challenger, she should drop out of the Senate race and run instead for state attorney general. In June, most of those same leaders had sent the Westchester County district attorney a letter urging her to take on Clinton.
But since, there were campaign gaffes, trouble raising money and even a husband who was working behind the scenes to get Pirro out of the Senate race. Thus far, she has not heeded the advice, but many Republican leaders think it is only a question of when she drops out, not if.
"Hillary Clinton is probably laughing hysterically at the Republican chaos," said Hank Sheinkopf, a New York-based Democratic strategist who worked on President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, but is not part of his wife's campaign team, reoprts AP.
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