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If were a stock traded on the big board, the sell-off would have come about four years ago. She was blamed for pushing too hard and too fast for her controversial national health-care program. She was being investigated, along with her husband, in a co--complex land deal which few people understood. She was suspected of hiding evidence from her previous work at an Arkansas law--law firm. She was the butt of jokes from late-night comics and political cartoonists, and had become sort of a dart board for the then triumphant Republicans who took control of Congress in 1994. But as any stock analyst will tell you, what goes down can sometimes come roaring back up. The Comeback is our cover story from Martha Teichner.
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Mr. SAM DONALDSON (ABC News): Mrs. , everybody wants to know if you're going to run for the Senate.
MARTHA TEICHNER reporting:
(Voiceover) She will decide, say her friends, when she has done what one calls her due diligence. This past week, every move she made was watched, not for body language clues as to the state of her marriage, post-impeachment, post-Monica, but to guess her political intentions. Never mind all the speculation. Her advisers insist the decision will be made, not in a matter of days, but weeks, possibly even months, when she has immersed herself totally in the pros and cons of running for the Senate in New York.
Unidentified Pollster #1: If the next election for US Senate in New York state were held today, whom would you support if the candidates are Rudy Giuliani, the Republican, and , the Democrat?
Unidentified Woman #1: .
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TEICHNER: (Voiceover) But if the election were held today, according to the polls, Rodham would beat New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani by 11 percent.
Unidentified Pollster #2: Do you have a favorable or an unfavorable impression of ?
Unidentified Man #1: Favorable.
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