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Will Hillary Clinton run for mayor of New York in November?

Nah. It wouldn’t make sense. The woman will turn 70 this year. She just suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in U.S. presidential history. She’s been a senator, secretary of state, first lady … what possible attraction could there be to risk what’s left of her name and reputation seeking a puny job like mayor, even if it’s mayor of the country’s most glittering city, its cultural mecca, with a budget and population bigger than most states?

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She wants to be left alone. Recent public sightings have mainly been in the woods near her home in suburban Westchester County, where she’s been taking a lot of long walks. The pundits and prognosticators of America are almost totally certain she won’t seek the mayoralty … or anything else, ever again, if it requires being elected … yet they can’t stop writing about it.

It’s “unlikely” said The New York Times, but then devoted considerable space to examining the odds and logistics and noting that she hasn’t specifically said she won’t. Times columnist Frank Bruni had great fun pointing out all the aggravation she could cause fellow New Yorker Donald Trump, sending inspectors to check out the smoke detectors at Trump Tower, appointing Alec Baldwin cultural affairs commissioner, acting like a grown-up as he fires off tweets complaining that the Chinese aren’t helping rein in North Korea. Nice!