President Bush has a 44% Job Approval rating in New Jersey
In other words, President Bush is the most popular politician for those who reside in New Jersey, a blue state...
Posted on 08/08/2005 12:45:25 PM PDT by RWR8189
August 8, 2005--In the race to be New Jersey's next Governor, Democrat Jon Corzine's lead has shrunk to single digits. Senator Corzine now leads Republican Doug Forrester by eight percentage points, 45% to 37%.
In July, Corzine held a 12-point lead. Since then, the Garden State Senator's support has dipped five percentage points, from 50% in July to 45% today. Forrester's numbers have held steady--38% last month, 37% now.
It's interesting to note that both candidates have slightly less support in this poll than they did the night after they were nominated in a statewide primary. This is the opposite of a normal campaign trend where candidate support increases as undecided voters gradually shift to one camp or the other.
Overall, Corzine is viewed favorably by 39% of New Jersey voters and unfavorably by 37%. The numbers for Forrester are 34% favorable and 26% unfavorable. For both men, those figures are a bit more negative than a month ago. It is very unusual for two statewide candidates to have such low favorability ratings.
Forty-seven percent (47%) of Likely Voters say that New Jersey politics is more corrupt than in most other states. Six percent (6%) say it is less corrupt while 41% believe the level of corruption is typical of most other states.
Still, 34% of voters named property taxes as the most important issue in the campaign. Just 18% named corruption.
Forced to make a choice between reducing property taxes and cleaning up corruption, voters were evenly divided. 48% named cleaning up corruption as more important while 44% said reducing property taxes was a higher priority.
Additional issues related data will be released tomorrow (Tuesday).
The telephone survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports on August 7, 2005. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Forty percent (40%) of survey respondents were Democrats, 30% Republican.
President Bush has a 44% Job Approval rating in New Jersey, slightly below his national Approval Ratings.
Will New Jersey ever elect a "clean" candidate again?
Answer: Are you kidding? No.
Seems it's tightening up. I'm no great fan of Forrester, but if the alternative is Corslime, there's no contest.
President Bush has a 44% Job Approval rating in New Jersey
In other words, President Bush is the most popular politician for those who reside in New Jersey, a blue state...
"Will New Jersey ever elect a "clean" candidate again?"
Not in our lifetime - or our children's.
Scientific proof 45% of "Noo Joisey" residents are certifiable morons.
Most people in NJ are so brainwashed by the unions that they'll vote blue no matter what. For this reason, I never talk politics with my family who live there. It's like talking to to bricks.
These numbers aren't bad, considering that Corzine was considered a lock not long ago. This race is eminently winnable for Forrester if he hammers Corzine on taxes and corruption.
I wonder if the bim who Corzine gave the half million dollar home to is having her union back Corzine...
What more does it take for the voters of NJ to wake up? If a Lib politician kills someone in New Jersey, I bet they would still re-elect him.
New Jersey always has the best government that money can buy.
Doesn't say much for the people of New Jersey.
That's not a poll. It's a joke.
I'm rooting for the big government liberal moron in this election, because Corzine is even worse.
Not really for a state poll.
Doubling the sample size would only reduce the margin of error 1.5% to around 3%
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