Torpor rules New York's voters in summertime. The trick for a candidate is to contend with the state's politicians. They are forever seeing an eight-dimensional chessboard and screaming that time is running out. Thus former mayor David Dinkins privately tells friends he's worried that blacks might not vote for Hillary in the numbers they would have if Giuliani were her opponent . . . Jewish Democrats worry that their friends are thinking Republican . . .
Hispanic pols are at the throats of the Jewish pols in the Bronx . . .
West Indians are facing off against African Americans in Brooklyn. Even the Bronx County dinner gets a little rough. The D.A. hoots back and pretty soon one of his aides is suggesting that a Sharpton aide should commit a physically impossible act. Machiavelli has nothing on New York. Which is something else that Hillary seems to get about New York.