For now, her 27 staff members and volunteers are crammed elbow to elbow in a small, windowless space stuffed with boxes and computers stacked on desks. Clinton slumps into a chair in her tiny office off the main room, pulls off her earrings and begins attacking a stack of memos, some of them on the bill she wants to introduce next month to revive upstate New York's ailing economy. There were more meetings after the caucus lunch, including an important one with California Senator Dianne Feinstein, who offered advice on setting up a legislative office that can cope with the demands of a large state. Clinton is an obsessive organizer, but so far she's surrounded by administrative chaos. She's still putting together a computer system to handle the thousands of letters that are pouring in from constituents each week.
Home is just as hectic.
Talking to her, you get the sense that Clinton's frenetic schedule provides a kind of refuge from all those exit scandals. Tell us what you think.