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COPYRIGHT 2000 The Philadelphia Inquirer
Byline: Douglas Pike
The crusade to elect Hillary Rodham Clinton senator from New York takes me back to 1964, when Robert Kennedy of Massachusetts snatched a Senate seat in that same state. I was an anti-carpetbagger protester at the nominating convention, and in the fall, I rooted in vain for the Republican incumbent.
Annoyingly, my fellow New Yorkers elected another carpetbagger, James Buckley of Connecticut, to the Senate in 1970. But at least he was from the state next door. Bobby Kennedy also had a slim connection _ he had gone to school for a while in the state.
As Hillary Clinton fans get giddy over her new, no-name opponent for...
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