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Political contests are generally thought of as binary affairs: a candidate runs as a Democrat or as a Republican, gets more votes or doesn't, stays up to celebrate or concedes and goes to bed. Last week, in New York, the former scenarios prevailed for the Democratic slate of Hillary Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, Andrew Cuomo, and Alan Hevesi. But, even among the triumphant, there were winners and there were losers. Perhaps nowhere were the nuances of popularity and power more apparent than in Tuesday's various victory parties.
An early stop, for the Election Night schmoozer, was an event organized by the Hevesi campaign. Several weeks earlier, Hevesi, the incumbent candidate for state...
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