ROCHESTER (AP)  -- The start of Caroline Kennedy's listening tour was awfully hard to hear.

So far, her first foray into New York politics has been one of private meetings, brief appearances, and unanswered questions about what she would do if chosen as New York's next senator.

It's a similar strategy to the one Hillary Rodham Clinton employed during her campaign for the job in 1999, but with a big difference: Kennedy is really campaigning for just one voter -- Democratic Gov. David Paterson.

He has the sole responsibility for naming a successor.

Kennedy's supporters have launched an intense lobbying effort to convince the governor to make her a senator.