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New York City, November 7, 2006.

This election night at the Sheridan Hotel, and inside the Grand Ballroom, the roar of

the crowd is deafening.

Democrats have just swept the state elections, sending Hillary Clinton back to the US Senate

for her second term and Andrew Cuomo into the position of state attorney general.

But tonight, it's the man who won the race for governor of New York State that people

want to hear from.

Just 47 years old, Elliott Spitzer is the Democratic Party's new golden boy.

I wonder if all my business has been across this nation for people who value good values

and judgment.

But today was not a victory of one candidate or one party, but of all those irrepressible

optimists who have hoped and dreamed of a resurgent New York.

Aggressive, ambitious, and charming.

Spitzer has a gleaming resume as the tough attorney general who battled corruption on Wall Street.

He's a hero to New York voters who put him into office with a whopping 69% of the vote.

The Democratic National Committee is even eyeing him as a possible presidential candidate,

and Spitzer has done nothing to discourage them.

But tonight, Spitzer is on a mission.

Some might call it a crusade.

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