Somewhere in the RMNews Archives there is an article that states our Sources told us that Hillary will be President in 2008. (Actually the article says 2018 -- but it was a typo that wasn't caught in time) With this Senate win under her belt -- It looks like our Sources do know what the game plan is -- Whether or not the game plan will succeed is another question.
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Tomorrow's NY Post cover:
Picture of beautiful Hillary Clinton with subtitle:
"First Lady Locks up N.Y. Senate Seat"
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From Reuters:
Tuesday November 7 9:41 PM ET
Hillary Rodham Clinton Wins New York Senate Race
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By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton won election to the U.S. Senate from New York on Tuesday, becoming the first lady to seek and win elective office and ensuring the Clinton political legacy will stay alive.
U.S. television networks projected Clinton, wife of President Clinton, the winner of the key race over Republican Rick Lazio, a Long Island congressman. She will assume the seat of retiring Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, giving a lift to Democratic efforts to retake the Senate.
Polls closed in New York at 9 p.m. EST and few numbers or actual results were available.
``She did it,'' said a delighted Sen. Charles Schumer, the freshman Democrat from New York on whose behalf Clinton campaigned extensively two years ago.
``And she did it the old-fashioned way, she earned it,'' he said. ``She has worked hard and kept her focus, and most of all, kept to the issues,'' said Schumer, who was one of Clinton's earliest supporters in her Senate bid.
Important For Democrats
The Clinton win, besides ensuring that the family's name will remain in the political limelight for at least another six years, was an important one for Democrats who held onto Moynihan's seat and sought to wipe out the 54-46 Republican Senate majority.
Cheers rose from the crowd of Clinton supporters gathered at the Grand Hyatt hotel in midtown Manhattan when the networks projected the first lady the winner, while isolated groans emanated from people watching the results on television monitors at Lazio's Roosevelt Hotel headquarters.
Clinton's bid to enter the Senate's hallowed halls, described by some as the nation's most exclusive men's club, formally began in July 1997, when she announced she would embark on a ``listening tour'' of the state to familiarize herself with issues of importance to New Yorkers.
Appearing beside Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- whose seat she and Lazio are battling to fill -- at the veteran senator's upstate farm, the first lady hoped spending months in the spotlight traveling the state as she considered a Senate run would mitigate criticism that she was a carpetbagger.
She first established the required New York residency by purchasing with the president a $1.7 million home in Chappaqua, a prosperous suburb of New York City.
Along the way she faced two Republican opponents and was beset by controversies over White House sleepovers and kissing the wife of Yasser Arafat, who had just accused Israel of poisoning Palestinians.
Clinton, one of the nation's most polarizing political figures, faced no opposition in her bid to secure the Democratic nomination and was expected to run against New York's combative mayor, Republican moderate Rudolph Giuliani, but he bowed out after a prostate cancer diagnosis in April.
Lazio, a Long Island congressman and former prosecutor, entered the race in May.
Remarking on the historic nature of the race when Clinton was formally nominated at the state party's convention in May, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said ``how sweet it will be when we change Hillary Rodham Clinton's title from first lady to the honorable senator from New York.''
Silver's words proved prophetic on Tuesday.
