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Kennedy Endures Rough Start in Bid for Senate Seat
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 AP Exclusive: Kennedy Talks Senate Seat (video)
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youtube.com — In her first sit-down interview since expressing interest in a U.S. Senate seat, Caroline Kennedy says she... will have to work twice as hard if appointed to th... (more) AP Exclusive: Kennedy Talks Senate Seat (video)
Kennedy says 9/11, Obama led her to public service (AP)
news.yahoo.com — AP - Caroline Kennedy emerged from weeks of near-silence Friday about her bid for a Senate seat... by saying that after a lifetime of closely guarded privacy, she felt compelled to answer the call to service issued by her father a generation ago. (more) Kennedy says 9/11, Obama led her to public service (AP)
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Send Caroline Kennedy to Court of St. James
The Washington Note — ... Caroline Kennedy is having a rough time convincing fellow New York-based Dems that she's good for them. If she really, really wants to be in the rough and tough of hard scrabble politics -- and show us all what she is made of -- I wish she had decided to enter the political fray via election rather than appointment. ...

Steve Clemons: Send Caroline Kennedy to Court of St. James
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Caroline Kennedy is having a rough time convincing fellow New York-based Dems that she's good for them. If she really, really wants to be in the rough and tough of hard scrabble politics -- and show us all what she is made of -- I wish she had decided to enter the political fray via election rather than appointment. ...

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