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New York status may hurt Clinton?

ALBANY - Eight years ago when Hillary Rodham Clinton began her quest for a U.S. Senate seat, she was harangued across New York as a “carpetbagger” and greeted with Ray Charles' voice warning voters were soon “going to send you back to Arkansas.”

Now, as she runs for president, Clinton faces a very different reality, one much on display at New York's state Capitol recently as she accepted the endorsements of Gov. Eliot Spitzer and other top New York Democrats. She has become, for better or worse, a New Yorker.

“She is a New Yorker, through and through,” Spitzer declared as the crowd cheered.

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