Bobby Kennedy

Robert Kennedy, Jr. in Passaic on Monday night, flanked by U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, left, and Assemblyman Thomas Giblin.

Arguing that his presidential candidate possesses a unique combination of toughness and persuasive power, Robert Kennedy, Jr. electrified a tent-ful of fellow Hillary Clinton supporters on Monday night at a private home in Passaic.

"I was very skeptical at first because I knew she was coming in under the same charges as my father did, which were that she was a carpetbagger," Kennedy, a Westchester, N.Y. resident, said of Clinton’s appeal to him when she first prepared to run for his father’s old Senate seat.

Kennedy said Clinton faced tremendous hostility, especially in traditionally Republican upstate New York - where a Senate candidate must win if he or she is to win the state, in Kennedy’s words.

Rallying a small crowd in a tent at a home in Passaic on the eve of Election Day, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell predicts that with a big GOTV effort behind her, Sen. Hillary Clinton will produce a "rainbow victory."

Speaking at a pump-up-the-troops event in Passaic tonight, Sen. Hillary Clinton fan Robert Kennedy, Jr., whose father once quoted Aeschylus in memorializing Martin Luther King, Jr., questioned Barack Obama's day-one readiness by suggesting the candidate would substitute poetry for toughness and real political skill.