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On the question of Kennedy's qualifications for the Senate, it was close - 42 percent said yes, 37 percent said no, and 21 percent were not sure. The margin of error is 4.5 points. Fifty-nine percent she would not be under consideration if her name was not Kennedy. A plurality of New Yorkers (44 percent) said she would do about the same job as Clinton, 9 percent said she'd do a better job and 34 percent said she would do a worse one.

Rasmussen did not do a match-up of state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo against King, as did Public Policy Polling in a survey we posted earlier this week. Kennedy edged King by 46 percent to 44 percent, but Cuomo led him by 48 percent to 29 percent.

In one other poll looking ahead to 2010, American Research Group tested 3-term New Hampshire Republican Sen. Judd Gregg against Reps. Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes and found Gregg leading them both. In the poll conducted Dec. 27-29, Gregg led Shea-Porter 54 percent to 35 percent with 11 percent undecided, and Hodes by 47 percent to 40 with 13 percent undecided. Hodes had the support of 67 percent of Democrats compared to Shea-Porter's 56 percent.