Caroline Kennedy dropping Senate bid

After a rough month of "campaigning," two New York City newsapers are reporting that Caroline Kennedy is dropping her bid to have Governor David Patterson appoint her to fill the next two years of Hillary Clinton's Senate term.

The New York Post says that Patterson had already decided not to appoint her.

In 2010, a special election is to be held to decide who would serve for the final two years of Clinton's term. By then, the novelty of having JFK's daugher representing them would have worn off, and upstate voters, Kennedy seems unfamiliar with that part of her home state north of Westchester County, might have soured on her for good.

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