Fineman The Megastates Gamble
For Hillary, the idea is not to let antiwar activists corner her in Iowa and New Hampshire; for Rudy, the goal is to avoid humiliation at the hands of pro-life activists. More generally, these New Yorkers want to run as close to the political center as they can. It’s a very sensible goal, of course—if they can get away with it. All the other candidates in both parties are, to one degree or another, pursuing the opposite strategy: looking to play “small ball,” scratching out singles in the early-inning states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada....