Its cognitive dissonance. The perennial, wailing cry of conservative upstate New Yorkers is that everything they don't like is the fault of those 'down-state politicians who don't know that anyone lives north of Albany'. So who's their darling? A guy from Long Island. Then, these same folks don't like Hillary's "character"- when Rick Lazio is the creation of "Honest Al" D'Amato, George (the crooked real-estate devloper) Pataki & "Uncle" Joe Margiotta's corrupt Republican machine.

Ya gotta wonder.

Best, Greg