Interesting NJ Senate Poll
August 15th, 2008 at 07:29am Mark Noonan
Its sponsored by a conservative group, but still rather fascinating given that the sample was 41% Democrat and 25% GOP:
The contest between Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg and Republican ex-Rep. Dick Zimmer is neck and neck, according to a new poll sponsored by the Club for Growth. It’s no surprise coming out of the Garden State, though, where voters never seem to make up their mind until the very end of an election.
In the good news for the GOP side, only 26% of respondents figure Lautenberg deserved re-election - and its good to keep in mind that Laugtenberg was inserted into the 2002 race after Toricelli was bounced from the Democratic nomination for committing the worst crime of all - being at risk of losing a Democratic seat (all that corruption stuff which got him into trouble was nothing, after all; only the risk of loss motivated the Democrats to take the highly illegal step of switching candidates late in the race). Real Clear politics points out that another poll showed Lautenberg up by 7 percentage points…but tied or +7 for the Democrats, its still good news for the GOP that in very blue NJ in a very tough year for Republicans that we’re within striking distance of a major Senatorial upset.
As I keep saying, this is going to be an interesting year - and throw out all those ideas you had of predicting the outcome. Its really all up in the air, from top of the ticket to bottom.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Congress, Democrats, Republicans
6 Comments
1. Upstart | August 15th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Pollster.com has it 49-40 for Lautenberg; while Rasmussen has it 53-38 in August. Send as much Repug lobbyist money as you can to Jersey, Zimmer is due for a break out at any time. Virginia, North Carolina and Indiana will take care of their own politics.
2. '08ama | August 15th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Librul icons Robert Torecelli AND Keith Olberman both dated right-wing nut job Laura Ingrate.
go figger.
3. neocon | August 15th, 2008 at 9:03 am
I firmly believe that the audacity of arrogance will be the Democrats downfall in ‘08. The poll below bodes well for the GOP and we have Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Howard Dean and Obama to thank for it. However, the GOP hopefuls will have to stick to their conservative principles to win, just ask Obama, who has famously tacked hard right since the nomination.
PRINCETON, NJ — In a year when approval of Congress has reached a new low, just 36% of U.S. registered voters say most members of Congress deserve re-election. This is among the lowest ratings Gallup has measured in a recent presidential or congressional election year……Gallup has found ratings in the neighborhood of the current 36% in three other election years — 1992, 1994, and 2006. All of these years brought about significant change in the membership of Congress.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/109267/Voters-Strongly-Backing-Incumbents-Congress.aspx
4. neocon | August 15th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Olberman is an icon??????
LMAO.
Says a lot about you O8ama. Even moreso when you consider you’re commenting on his dating life. Actually a little creepy.
5. \'08ama | August 15th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Neo:
The way you folks treat Olberman here, anyone would think he’s a liberal icon.
Btw..
Congress ALWAYS has low ratings, and it’s lower than normal right now because they have failed to impeach an entire administartion that is so criminal, it makes the Nixon administartion look like law abiding citizens.
6. '08ama | August 15th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Neo:
Like McCain, I get al my information from Wikipedia. Laura’s WIki page has the story.