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TIME New York correspondent Elaine Rivera on the political fallout...
...Even as an unknown, Lazio has a very good chance because the party is behind him and because of Hillary's high controversy level," says TIME New York correspondent Elaine Rivera. "But it's important that as voters get to know Lazio, they like him. He has to be very careful not to blow this chance to make a good first impression." Lectern-thumping and name-calling for the paying faithful is standard operating procedure for a political convention. But it may not look so good under the daily spotlight of a long and scrutinized campaign. As Lazio comes...
...riled, well aware that any public snarling won't win her the new support she needs to break through what may be a mid-40s numbers ceiling. "Clinton is dealing with an anti-Hillary, anti-Clinton vote that could limit her numbers," says TIME New York correspondent Elaine Rivera. "She can't afford to make any more enemies, especially upstate." Lazio, on the other hand is dealing with an opponent that Rivera says Pataki, with his name and his money, "really could have stomped" outside Manhattan - and if Lazio can hang onto his centrism, that 32 percent...
...federal income taxes. It has also left them with a murky political identity, fractured among those who want independence, statehood or the status quo. Vieques, and the crusade to halt the bombing there, "marks the first time Puerto Ricans have formed a consensus on anything," says demonstrator Jose Antonio Rivera, 51, a music teacher. Puerto Rico's status won't change anytime soon, and the standoff was in many ways a radical-chic stunt by Puerto Rico's small pro-independence movement. But something has changed: now, Puerto Rico wants to speak more of its own mind...
...landscape for politicians and their marriages, starting with the Gennifer Flowers affair," she says. "There was no reason for Giuliani to keep up the fa?ade." If anything, Giuliani may get a boost from standing up and calling a sham a sham. "It's sad, especially for their kids," says Rivera. "But it's been obvious that this was a deeply strained relationship...