I have attached the text of a memo I received concerning the results of a recent New Jersey political poll. The memo was written by Gene Ulm, a partner with Public Opinion Strategies – one of America’s leading political polling organizations. See link below.
The poll revealed:
1) That Jim McGreevey is the most vulnerable governor in America and that Bret Schundler is poised to beat him.
2) That if Bret Schundler runs for Governor, the odds of his winning the Republican nomination are extremely high.
3) That Bret’s property tax and school funding proposals are not just good policy, they are incredibly good political issues with the power to attract a huge number of Democrat and Independent voters to you.
4) That if Bret gets out his message on property taxes and school funding, he would likely win the governorship even if the Democrats replace Jim McGreevey with a stronger candidate like John Corzine, and even if the Democrats attack Bret savagely on divisive social issues.
These numbers tell us that Jim McGreevey cannot redeem himself with New Jersey’s voters. If Bret runs against him, Bret will win.
Since the Democrats cannot redeem McGreevey’s image, many political professionals believe they will focus on attacking the Republican candidates who enter the race for Governor. They will try to depict each Republican candidate as having no chance of victory so they can undermine Republican confidence and try to divide Republicans against one another. But these poll results suggest that this strategy will not work – that the voters have had it with Jim McGreevey and they ain’t buying him again.
Bret has been working to unify the Republican Party behind a practical, concrete solution to New Jersey’s property tax and school funding problems so he can position the Party for victory even if the Democrats ultimately change candidates. His enormous success in Democrat Jersey City was the result of his keeping focused on issues that everyone wanted to see addressed, and of his proposing workable solutions that almost everyone could unite behind. That is what Bret is doing now, and that is exactly what he should continue doing. Indeed, these poll results say that if Bret does continue doing what he is doing, and then decides to run for Governor, he will very likely be New Jersey’s next Governor.
I encourage you to share this information with as many members of your organization as possible – and to get involved with Bret’s “Empower The People” organization (sign up at www.empowerthepeople.org) as it works to lower your property taxes.
Joining Bret’s efforts to lower your property taxes would help Bret.
And lower property taxes would help everyone in New Jersey!
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