For senate, Caroline or Carolyn?

New York Times by Nicholas D. Kristof | Dec. 17, 2008 (Opinion)

Caroline Kennedy strikes me as a very impressive woman with all the right priorities, such as education. But I also find it unseemly and undemocratic that she seems to have vaulted to the top of the Senate list by virtue of who her dad was. Seeing which way the wind is blowing, Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post has already endorsed her. Isn’t that sexist? Isn’t that the kind of system we rebelled against in 1776? Full Story »

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Topics: U.S. Senate, Election Reform
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    Balkinization by Sandy Levinson | Dec. 18, 2008 (Comment)
    () I must also say, as a partisan Democrat, that I genuinely wonder whether Ms. Kennedy, whatever her strengths might be, would necessarily prevail over Peter King or some other ...
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