Voters are split at 37 percent each with 26 percent unsure about whether Caroline Kennedy is qualified to be a senator, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Dec. 17-18. It should be noted that this is a national poll, not one of New Yorkers where Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be-vacant seat beckons. Fifty-nine percent said Kennedy would not be considered for the seat if it wasn't for her last name. All that being said, 67 percent view her favorably.

Forty-seven percent said they were very or somewhat worried about whether the U.S. was developing an unofficial group of royal families with too much influence over government and politics, which coincidentally, is the subject of a column today by CQ's John Bicknell.