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Clinton leaves NY politics having won over critics

Ten years ago, when Secret Service motorcades appeared on the byways of rural New York carrying the first lady of the United States on an exploratory "listening tour" for a U.S. Senate run, commentators noted that she certainly showed an abundance of one local talent: chutzpah.

"She's driving around New York state listening to the voters," Letterman joked in 1999, "and the voters are all telling...

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