Buttonholed Thursday night at a reception for the Mart's huge Artropolis show, Mr. Kennedy replied, "I'm thinking about it" when asked about his Senate ambitions.
"I'm a ways from making up my mind," added Mr. Kennedy, who has thrown several head fakes in previous years about other political races. "It's really a personal decision."
The North Shore resident also confirmed that he's interested enough in the race for the seat now held by Roland Burris that he's commissioned a poll, and that the results are pretty good.
Mr. Kennedy wouldn't give any numbers but, as he put it, "Let's just say there was nothing in there that would discourage me." Another source familiar with the poll agreed that the results are favorable.
I wouldn't mind taking a look at those numbers, but of course I won't have the opportunity. Name recognition skews the results of any political poll conducted for a race that will take place nine months from now.
Technorati tags:
Congress 
politics 
Illinois 
Democrats 
corruption 
blagojevich
Wasn't another Kennedy if not Chris Kennedy talking about running for a House seat in Illinois. Chris was contemplating running for something many years ago himself.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, Levois.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it was William Kennedy Smith, the doctor who was accused of rape.
Off topic, but I used to see him walking around Lincoln Park.
Anyway, he had some polls done, had some focus group work conducted, in preparation for the 5th Congressional District. Smith never ran, and Rahm Emanuel won the race.