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MRS. Clinton said recently that there was only “a remote possibility” she would decide against running for the Senate from New York. That’s her ego and ambition talking. When her instinct for self-preservation kicks in, Mrs. Clinton will bow out of the race, so as not to risk a devastating political and personal loss.

Think of what’s at stake. Mrs. Clinton is different from other first-time candidates in that if she loses, she’s washed up for good. In rejecting Hillary, New York—with a Democratic advantage of 2 million voters—would have rejected the Democratic party’s most articulate liberal. The upright, ideologically passionate Hillary would have lost a state her husband carried twice. As Frank Sinatra might have said, If she can’t make it there, she can’t make it anywhere.

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MRS. Clinton said recently that there was only “a remote possibility” she would decide against running for the Senate from New York. That’s her ego and ambition talking. When her instinct for self-preservation kicks in, Mrs. Clinton will bow out of the race, so as not to risk a devastating political and personal loss.

Think of what’s at stake. Mrs. Clinton is different from other first-time candidates in that if she loses, she’s washed up for good. In rejecting Hillary, New York—with a Democratic advantage of 2 million voters—would have rejected the Democratic party’s most articulate liberal. The upright, ideologically passionate Hillary would have lost a state her husband carried twice. As Frank Sinatra might have said, If she can’t make it there, she can’t make it anywhere.