Records show Caroline Kennedy failed to cast her vote many times since 1988

Can we say "OMG, no way, I'm so surprised", cough, cough,,"NOT". Politics as usual with the kenedys's right? But just watch, I will actually be surprised if she doesn't get the Senate seat.

From FreeRepublic.com

Caroline Kennedy has her sights on being the senator from New York, but hasn't voted much here since she registered in 1988.

Caroline Kennedy wants to be the next senator from New York, but her voting record is already spotty, the Daily News has found.

City Board of Elections records show Kennedy has failed to vote in many elections since she registered in the city in 1988 - including votes for the Senate seat she hopes to fill and numerous Democratic faceoffs for mayor.

"It doesn't speak to a deep-felt commitment to the electoral process," Baruch College political scientist Doug Muzzio said when told of Kennedy's ballot breakdowns. Records
show Kennedy did not pull the lever for any of her fellow Democrats in city primary races for mayor in 1989, 1993 and 1997 and 2005, which Republicans went on to win three out of four times in the general election.

She was also AWOL for the primary and general elections in 1994, when Sen. Daniel Moynihan was running for reelection to the seat Kennedy hopes to hold.

Aides to Kennedy - who Thursday said she was running in part because this is no time to "sit out" - conceded Thursday night that at times the daughter of former President John F. Kennedy has done just that.

Most of the time, she voted, aides said. A review by The News found that of the 38 contested elections since 1988, Kennedy skipped about half, almost all of them primaries.
"Caroline Kennedy recognizes just how important it is to vote and has a very strong record of going to the polls," spokesman Stefan Friedman said. "She has not voted on a handful of occasions over the last two decades."

Thursday, Kennedy went to Harlem for a soul-food sitdown with the Rev. Al Sharpton, who, ironically, was Moynihan's Democratic opponent in 1994.

"I come at this as a mother, as a lawyer, as an author, as an education advocate and from a family that really has spent generations in public service," she said with Sharpton at her side outside Sylvia's, Harlem's famed soul-food mecca.

Inside, the two shared a lunch of grilled chicken and collard greens at the same table where Sharpton and Obama had dined in November 2007 - a meeting that was key to
his presidential win, Sharpton joked with Kennedy. "If she believes that," Sharpton quipped, "then I got some other things I can sell her in Harlem."

The sitdown was part of a round of informal chats Kennedy is holding with state leaders. On Wednesday, she barnstormed through Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo.

Kennedy Thursday also met with Brooklyn Democratic Leader Vito Lopez at an Italian restaurant in Williamsburg.

Lopez is scheduled to formally back her bid for Senate today, a source close to him said Thursday night.

Gov. Paterson has sole authority to fill Clinton's seat, a job Attorney General Andrew Cuomo also is seriously considering. Paterson played coy Thursday when asked about
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