New Yorkers are split over who is going to serve as their next Senator with 40% of state voters saying Caroline Kennedy is the right pick. 40 percent go with the expensive hair, 40 percent with the expensive dental work, 20 percent remain undecided.
A Quinnipiac University survey found Tuesday that voters are divided almost right down the middle - 40-41 - on whether Caroline Kennedy is qualified to occupy Hillary Clinton's Senate seat or Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, but they nevertheless believe by a wide margin (48-25) that Gov. David Paterson will choose her. "Among New Yorkers in general, Caroline Kennedy's grade is just OK," said Maurice Carroll, director of Quinnipiac University's Polling Institute, reported AFP. "Ask the question two ways: Should the governor appoint Ms. Kennedy? New Yorkers give her a narrow lead over Cuomo. Will he appoint her? Heavily, the answer is 'yes.'"
Thirty-three percent of voters said Paterson should name Kennedy to the seat while 29 percent preferred Cuomo. Cuomo, son of former New York governor Mario Cuomo, has a slight edge over Kennedy with upstate voters (31-27), while she has a wide lead in New York City (42-37) and they're neck-and-neck at 30 percent each in the suburbs. Quinnipiac University conducted the poll between December 17 and 21.