fivethirtyeight.com - 12/18/2008
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Thus far, I've tried to avoid making any sort of editorial comment on New York's vacant Senate seat. This is not because I don't enjoy making an editorial comment from time to time, but rather because I find myself agnostic on the whole affair. Caroline Kennedy strikes me as neither patently ...
democratandchronicle.com - 12/18/2008
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democratandchronicle.com —
In her first visit to Rochester, U.S. Senate
hopeful Caroline Kennedy met Wednesday with Mayor Robert Duffy...
and Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-Fairport, asking questions about upstate but not asking for an endorsement. Kennedy began the day in Syracuse, ...
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Kennedy visits Rochester as part of effort to learn ...
nydailynews.com - 12/17/2008
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nydailynews.com —
Caroline Kennedy's stop in Rochester was slightly less
scripted than her appearance earlier today in Syracuse, which...
Times scribes Nick Confessore and Jeremy Peters described as so controlled it was "reminiscent of the vice-president hopeful Sarah ...
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NY-Sen: The polling
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538 graphed the results: Among all voters, Cuomo and Kennedy -- both political royalty -- get about a quarter of New Yorkers in their corner. Among Democrats, the number fluctuates significantly between the three polls, but no one gets a commanding majority. There is simply no consensus on the issue. What we see here is that obviously, name recognition carries certain advantages. There are some great names in that poll who are given short shrift by respondents because they weren't born into the right family. But real campaigns have a way of ...
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