Mark Kleiman watched Hillary Clinton's efforts to round up the support of
Al Sharpton and Rupert Murdoch which certainly would, on some level, be an impressively odious tag-team of endorsements. On the other hand, on some level you'd expect everyone who moves and shakes in New York politics to get behind the nominal home state candidate.
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