Cheat Sheet

While Caroline Kennedy is making headlines with her bid for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, a steady stream of applicants is lining up to interview for the position. The New York Times reports on Assemblyman Daniel J. O’Donnell, an openly gay Democrat from Manhattan's Upper West Side, who spent 45 minutes with the governor Monday afternoon. O'Donnell doesn't think his chances are great (he figures about 1 in 10), but he didn't feel he was getting the brush-off, either. "I didn’t get the impression that a decision was coming anytime soon,” O’Donnell said. “I have the sense that [David Paterson] was really weighing what people were saying." Along with big names like Caroline Kennedy and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, about a half dozen others have expressed interest in the position. “There was no one in the waiting room,” O'Donnell added. “But that doesn’t mean there aren’t other patients.”