Poll Tracker

New York Gov. David Paterson has to navigate a thicket of state politics in choosing a successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton when she leaves the Senate for the State Department. Caroline Kennedy and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo run first and second in a survey of New Yorkers by Public Policy polling and are tied in a poll by the Marist Institute.

Public Policy Polling:, conducted Dec. 8-9:

Kennedy 44 percent

Cuomo 23 percent

Rep. Kirsten Gilibrand 6 percent

Rep. Brian Higgins 5 percent

Rep. Nydia Velazquez 4 percent

Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi 3 percent

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown 3 percent

Rep. Carolyn Maloney 3 percent