Can Hillary Break the Carpetbagger Ceiling?
By Frank Pellegrini (TIME.com) — Rick Lazio is still unknown enough to be dubbed “candidate” in the New York Times headlines announcing his fill-in run for ailing mayor Rudy Giuliani — and he’s already got almost a third of the vote. A Zogby poll of New York voters conducted Friday night and Saturday had Hillary Clinton at 46 percent and Lazio at 32 percent. And that was before Lazio officially jumped into the nationally watched U.S. Senate race Saturday night with a hometown-boy-makes-good rally in the gym of West Islip High School on Long Island, where Lazio graduated in 1976. Then Lazio, with New York Republicans from Gov. George Pataki to former rival Rep. Peter King closing ranks behind him, went about raising his political Q rating in the usual way: He appeared on all five Sunday talk shows and flashed his New York pedigree almost as often as his teeth.
