students also perceptively accused Clintonnof not caring about their answersnand only using the occasion as a photonopportunity. “There are more camerasnthan kids in here!” Clinton soonndropped the high school gambit in NewnYork.nThen, at a Clinton rally, the Governornretreated in confusion when Lenora Fulani,nthe black Marxist candidate of thenNew Alliance Party, interrupted him andnstarted a speech of her own. Not knowingnwhat to do, Clinton beat it out ofnthere.nFrom the very beginning Clinton wasnmet with bitter scorn, his Southern regionnmocked. He was first greeted by antypically New York placard, “BubbanStinks!” Taken aback, Clinton and hisnadvisers were bitter about being calledn”Bubba”—not exactly appropriate for anRhodes Scholar, they felt. By the secondnweek, however, Clinton, with hisnusual Eveready rabbit persistence, wasnready to claim that “Bubba” was really anwelcome mark of respect from his NewnYork fans.nOne time at noon, Clinton paid anbrief visit to a Manhattan drugstore. Onnemerging, he encountered a guy walkingnhis dog. Immediately, this typicalnNew Yorker called out: “Hey, Governor,nare you going to grant amnesty to allndrug pushers, or just to your buddies?”nSlick Willie bristled at the knowledgeable,nif impudent, remark.nGovernor Clinton has built much ofnhis campaign on obtaining black andnJewish support. Advised correctly thatnNew York is a seething ferment of special-interestngroups, Clinton was preparednto be a “pander-bear” (in PaulnTsongas’s memorable phrase) to thenmaximum. Addressing a group of OrthodoxnJews in Brooklyn, however, SlicknWillie almost went too far. He pledgednthat when he gets to be President, thenWhite House would keep a “glattnkosher” kitchen, that is, a rigidly koshernkitchen under the continuing supervisionnof an Orthodox rabbi. The assemblednOrthodox laughed, seeing the absurdity.nApparently, Clinton did notnrealize that Orthodox Jews have no interestnwhatever in gentiles keepingnkosher, and in fact regard the whole ideanas ludicrous—sort of like Jews or Muslimsnpledging to Christians that theynwould take communion. One rabbi atnthe gathering laughingly commentednthat Clinton must be trying to sell a lotnof Arkansas chickens.nOf course, the most damaging admissionnof the entire Clinton campaign wasnelicited by a feisty female local TV reporter.nAsked about ever smoking anmarijuana cigarette, Clinton had alwaysnsolemnly replied, “Ah have never’ brokennthe laws of the United States.”nGrasping Slick Willie’s pettifoggingnmind-set, she asked Clinton: “Have younever violated the laws of any other nation?”nAt which point Clinton, swornnto tell the truth according to his fashion,nconceded that he had smoked a fewnin England, and then added the killer:n”But ah never inhaled; ah never enjoyednit.” The never-inhaled line will hauntnhim from now on; already it has drawnnguffaws from routines by Billy Crystal atnthe Academy Awards and by Jay Leno.nJokes such as “I once gargled somenbooze, but I never swallowed it,” followedninevitably.nFor a while, indeed, it looked as ifnGovernor Brown would trounce Clintonnin New York. Barreling into the city afterna smashing triumph in Connecticut,nBrown at first did very well, tapping intonthe New York anger and hatred of politicians.nBrown needed to overcome thenNew Yorker’s conviction that all Californiansnare flakes, and that GovernornMoonbeam was a particularly wackynspecimen of the breed. Brown begannwith his youth support, as well as endorsementsnby the leaders of left unionism,nin particular the much lionizednDennis Rivera, of the longtime leftistnDrug and Hospital Workers Union.nUnfortunately, Brown was badly advised,nand he came a-cropper in NewnYork with his rash pledge to select JessenJackson as his vice-presidential candidate.nJackson didn’t say yes, but he surendidn’t say no, and he happily stumpednthe city with Brown. By this pledge,nBrown irretrievably lost the crucial Jewishnvote, for almost every Jew, left ornright, is deeply convinced that Jackson isnan anti-Semite. The reaction was symbolized,nand replayed over and over, onnTV: Brown, addressing the Jewish CommunitynRelations Council of New York,nwas interrupted and angrily challengednby fiery Brooklyn State AssemblymannDov Hikind, an Orthodox Jew repletenwith yarmulke, who denounced Brownnfor selecting the “anti-Semite” Jackson.nHikind, though a Republican, had alreadynendorsed Clinton. Even thoughnthe Jewish leadership hustled Hikind outnof there, most of the audience shoutednagreement with the dissident. Brown’snnnliberal pieties about “bringing black andnwhite together” and about “healing”nwere not going to work with this crowd.nPresumably the French moviemakernJacques Barzaghi and Brown’s other advisersnknow nothing about New York;nperhaps they thought that the loss ofnJewish voters would be made up innblack support. The fools! When PatnBuchanan moved on from New Hampshirento Georgia, a Georgia political scientistnwas asked whether Pat would donwell with the crossover “Bubba” vote innGeorgia. “Bubba don’t vote in primaries,”nthe political scientist astutelynreplied. In the same way, blacks andnPuerto Ricans don’t vote in New Yorknprimaries. It’s true that the blacks hadntrooped out in unaccustomed numbersnto vote for Jesse in 1988; but they’re notngoing to turn out like that for any whitenguy, pro-Jesse or not. Indeed, the totalnblack vote in New York fell by no lessnthan 60 percent from 1988. On the othernhand, Jews always vote in primaries,nso that they, though only 11 percent ofnNew York’s population, can constituten30 percent or more of the total Democraticnprimary vote.nAnd so the Brown disaster in NewnYork, winning only 9 percent of the Jewishnvote. Clinton did not get a landslidenof Jews, however; about 35 percent ofnthem voted for Tsongas, despite his leavingnthe race earlier. Partly, Jews were reactingnto the general upper-middle-classnattraction to Tsongas; partly they werentaking Ed Koch’s advice of voting fornTsongas as a convenient protest vehiclenagainst both front-runners, and hopingnfor a brokered convention (and perhaps anfinal “Mario Scenario”) in August,nHeartland Americans might havenbeen confused by the primary results,nin which Clinton came in first withnabout 41 percent of the vote, and confusednby the ethnic breakdown in thenpolls: Jews with a majority for Clinton,nblacks with a plurality for Brown, andnwhite Catholics about equally split betweennthe three candidates. But wherenwere the WSPs? Was their absence antypographical error? No, for the bewilderingnbut undeniable fact is that therenare no WASPs voting in New York’snDemocratic primary, or at least notnenough to become statistically significant.nWASPs in New York all votenRepublican, while Irish and ItaliannCatholics are split between the twonparties.nAs a result, the complexities of NewnJULY 1992/41n