A source close to Caroline Kennedy said the personal situation cited for her withdrawal from the senate race “does not have to do with Ted Kennedy.” This source would not elaborate. Caroline Kennedy’s withdrawal from contention--her one-sentence public statement last night cited a “personal reason” for withdrawing from the race--was said by at least one anonymous source to be ...

It wasn't all that long ago that supporting nuclear power as a Democrat in New York State was an easy way to lose an election. "In 1992 I was in a three-way race for the State Assembly," said Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, whose opponents in that race were a high school math teacher in his fifties and a "self-described '50 ...