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Poll: Majority Of Americans Say Caroline Kennedy Qualified To Be Senator
Although she's been getting some tough press coverage lately, a new CNN poll finds Caroline Kennedy still has some decent numbers on the biggest question facing her quasi-campaign: Whether she is qualified to serve in the Senate.
The poll found 52% of adults saying Kennedy is qualified to serve in the Senate, regardless of whether they personally would vote her, with 42% saying she is not.
The major caveat here is that this is a poll of adults nationwide, not a poll of New York specifically, where the more intense press coverage could potentially have a different effect on the numbers.
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And yet a truly HUGE majority of Americans really, really don't care.
December 29, 2008 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, maybe I am in the minority but I care. It matters to me who represents Minnesota and New York and Illinois because every time they vote in the Senatr they also represent me. And I think Caroline Kennedy would be just fine as U. S. Senators go.
December 29, 2008 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Biggest Knock on Caroline’s Candidacy
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=5283
December 29, 2008 1:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd be interested in seeing what Americans feel the qualifications for being a senator actually are.
December 29, 2008 1:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Almost half the country thinks Sarah Palin is qualified to be president.
December 29, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Umm, point of clarification please. Since when is 42% of people thinking you are not qualified to be something good news? And since Caroline Kennedy is not the only candidate up for consideration, I'm sure Gov. Paterson has many NY politicians to choose from that would score way higher on the qualified question, but lower on just simple name recognition. Might I recommend Weingarten, Nadler, Maloney, Brown, Weiner, etc etc etc. Gov. Paterson explicitly said this is not a one woman race, so the question is not whether she is minimally qualified - it's whether she'd be the best choice to represent NY inthe Senate.
December 29, 2008 1:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not sure whether this indicates a high opinion of Kennedy or a low opinion of Senators.
December 29, 2008 2:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Early on I supported Caroline Kennedy, but over the last days I have decided she just doesn't want to put herself out for the job. Her refusal to share the kind of financial information required of any candidate and her announcement that she wouldn't run in 2010 if she isn't appointed now leads me to think she just doesn't have what it takes to be a Senator.
God, is she being mishandled.
December 29, 2008 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
According to this, she will run in 2010 either way:
http://www.progressiveinvolvement.com/progressive_involvement/2008/12/caroline-kennedy-will-run-in-2010-whether-she-gets-appointed-or-not.html
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
Asked whether she would run for the office if Gov. David Paterson doesn't appoint her, she replied: "Absolutely."
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December 29, 2008 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
For almost two years on a daily basis, the intense media coverage focused on the narrative that every story was somehow a problem for Barack Obama. If intense press coverage had any effect on voting numbers, I imagine Obama would not be president. The media doesn't have nearly the sway that they think they do.
December 29, 2008 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
For almost two years on a daily basis, the intense media coverage focused on the narrative that every story was somehow a problem for Barack Obama. If intense press coverage had any effect on voting numbers, I imagine Obama would not be president. The media doesn't have nearly the sway that they think they do.
December 29, 2008 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
fran drescher.
December 29, 2008 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Nanny State?
December 29, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I have been thinking that government sponsored daycare would be good for revitalizing the economy. ;)
December 29, 2008 3:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know, Americans seem indifferent to Caroline, and you know, she's done little to change that opinion....you know?
December 29, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
The issue isn't whether Caroline Kennedy is qualified. Of course, she is.
The issue is whether she is both the most qualified and the most deserving. Of course, in both categories, she is not.
December 29, 2008 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
CJ sums up the issue for me. Many people have been elected to the Senate, and been successful Senators, with similar (or lesser) qualifications to Caroline Kennedy's.
In that way she is different from Palin. No one, not even Bush, has been elected President with as thin a resume as Palin's.
But electoral politics is a crucible of sorts, and Kennedy has avoided that crucible, and I think if Patterson is going to appoint someone who doesn't have a successful electoral record, he needs to appoint someone who has been *outstanding* is some other field of public service.
December 30, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I see nothing has changed. Every time someone wants a job with no experiences, then they go by the "Poll". If the men with no experiences like Obama is OK, but the woman like Palin is the problem. They went attacking her and pushing her to the grown and now Caroline who is Dem is OK even if she has no experiences.
Obama has no real birth ceritificate has no executive experiences to Dem is a Messiah, and if anyone dares to oppose Dem that person is racist.
The Black man got the White House based on Race Card not his experiences or not a native US born.
If a Black woman like Michelle, Oprah... and many more Black men/women are racist is also OK, but the non black is not OK even if she/he just expressed her/his opinions.
There is no need to search for answers as to why the American politicians are jerks and why overseas don't like or respect us, because we embrace the fake democracy, and why wonder even a jerk like comedian Franken can run for a Senate.
I don't believe the majority of American people care who is Caroline anyway. She wants to be Senator after she saw Gov Palin came along.
I hate Dem more than Rep though I hate both.
I stop watching American News because they are no good anymore. I prefer Foreign News better.
January 2, 2009 12:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
sorry typo.
I meant ground not grown.
January 2, 2009 12:59 PM | Reply | Permalink