If Caroline Kennedy isn’t appointed to New York’s open U.S. Senate seat, will she run in 2010? Which is to say, does she want to be a Senator because she feels passionately that she is the best person to represent New Yorkers, or because it seems like it will be really easy for her to get a senate seat right now?

Apparently, there’s some confusion about the answers to these questions.

–Tim Fernholz

Tim Fernholz is a former staff writer for the Prospect. His work has been published by Newsweek, The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, and The Daily Beast. He is also a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation.