...I think that they're counting on name recognition, they're counting on the fact that you've got the big media centers in New York that would promote her, they're probably counting on New York City and support that they think that she would get there. Also of course counting on the belief, I guess, that we are now in an era where the Senate is no longer considered in any way really to have a relationship to the interests of the states from which people come. 'Cause what claim does Hillary Clinton have to represent New York?

--Maryland resident Alan Keyes, now reportedly the Illinois GOP's Senate candidate, in a February 17, 1999, radio broadcast