If Hillary does decide to run for Senate, she will not be given an easy ride. Belligerent questions, jockeying interest groups, raucous televised debates, tabloid tell-alls and negative ads often mark campaigns. Former New York mayor Ed Koch predicts that there would be potentially damaging gop efforts to portray her as 'a left-wing radical, a vicious ideologue'. The ill-fated health care plan she championed in the early '90s could be a sticky issue. And her support for Palestinian statehood would be controversial in the state's sizable Jewish community. If she runs, she should expect questions on everything from her lucrative commodity trades to her 'It Takes a Village' child-rearing theories. 'When you run for Senate, everything is a fair question and anyone who runs for Senate has to realise that,' Schumer told an Albany news conference. 'I'd rather walk on hot coals than face the New York media,' says Republican pollster Frank Luntz. 'She'll feel like she is walking on hot coals...when she faces tabloid journalism in New York.'