 Exit polls also showed a large gender gap with Clinton running stronger than expected among moderate women and unaffiliated women.In January 2001, two months after Hillary Rodham Clinton's election to the Senate, President Clinton pardoned four residents of the New Square Hasidic enclave in Rockland County, New York, who had been convicted of defrauding the federal government of $30 million by establishing a fictitious religious school.New Square had voted almost unanimously for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the New York Senate race.