Click here for our free newsletter. The education of Hillary Rodham Clinton is winding up its first semester. She has hunkered down with maps and polling data. Everywhere you step in this complicated state, you're bound to land on someone's toes. When pursuing other voters, you can't afford to marginalize them.
People here pick up on little things.
And they do. Three months later, the first lady was feting her new favorite team, the World Series-winning Yankees. And there, prominently on the White House lawn, was the Rev. Al Sharpton, mugging for photos with Bronx Bombers. For New York Jews, who recall Sharpton's incendiary stance during the Crown Heights riots, it was enough to provoke apoplexy. Telephone lines soon burned with angry activists spreading the word of Sharpton's invite.