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Election 2008: New Jersey Senate
Rasmussen Reports ^ | March 3, 2008

Posted on 03/04/2008 5:00:12 PM PST by Clintonfatigued

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of New Jersey voters found Democratic Incumbent Frank Lautenberg leading three Republican opponents in the race for the U.S. Senate in head to head match-ups.

Lautenberg leads Anne Evans Estabrook 44% to 34%, Joe Pennacchio 46% to 38% and Murray Sabrin 46% to 31%.

(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 110th; estabrook; lautenberg; nj2008; pennacchio; sabrin
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1 posted on 03/04/2008 5:00:12 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
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To: Clintonfatigued

Tax me more, please. I’m not dead yet.


2 posted on 03/04/2008 5:01:52 PM PST by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: Clintonfatigued

The Demoncrats are destroying New Jersey and what do they do? Keep the Louse in who isn’t capable of debating anyone. They changed the rules to get him in the race last time around. Unreal! More corruption and HIGHER TAXES will continue.


3 posted on 03/04/2008 5:02:21 PM PST by nmh (Mike Huckabee the "religious" humanist that pushes socialism! (Clinton/Carter combo))
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To: Clintonfatigued; Coleus

Lautenberg can die, and would still win the election.


4 posted on 03/04/2008 5:02:38 PM PST by Clemenza (I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Democrats - the party of change.


5 posted on 03/04/2008 5:03:28 PM PST by randita (We're having to cut back to afford gas. When's the government going to cut back!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; LdSentinal; AuH2ORepublican; Kuksool; Norman Bates; Coleus; ExTexasRedhead; ...

This is actually good news, as Lautenburg’s opponents are far less-known than he is.


6 posted on 03/04/2008 5:03:32 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
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To: I still care

“Tax me more, please. I’m not dead yet.”

They will. Don’t fret. People in New Jersey NEVER learn.
When you do die, there is always the DEATH TAX so you are taxed more.


7 posted on 03/04/2008 5:03:43 PM PST by nmh (Mike Huckabee the "religious" humanist that pushes socialism! (Clinton/Carter combo))
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To: Clintonfatigued

“This is actually good news, as Lautenburg’s opponents are far less-known than he is.”

Tell me how you spin this to be good news.

I need some cheering up.


8 posted on 03/04/2008 5:04:35 PM PST by nmh (Mike Huckabee the "religious" humanist that pushes socialism! (Clinton/Carter combo))
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To: Coleus; oceanview; fieldmarshaldj; maine-iac7; Straight Vermonter

I’m surprised that Joe Pennacchio is running so strongly against Lautenberg. Does he have a high profile in New Jersey?


9 posted on 03/04/2008 5:05:15 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
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To: nmh

“Tell me how you spin this to be good news.”

Lautenberg has widespread name I.D., due to winning statewide office four times since 1982. His Republican opponents are mostly unknown. Yet they are holding him to under 50%, and one trails by only single digits. It proves that Lautenberg is not popular and can be defeated this year.


10 posted on 03/04/2008 5:06:51 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
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To: nmh

Senator Lautenburg is presently polling below 50% against all of the GOP challengers, and that truly is good news in a blue state like New Jersey.


11 posted on 03/04/2008 5:08:02 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (Vote for conservatives AT ALL POLITICAL LEVELS! Encourage all others to do the same on November 4!)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Judging from "Jersey Joe's" website, it looks like he's doing a good job appealing to the average Joe (pun intended) and getting working class NJ voters to empathize with him. The italian name probably helps too.

I always liked Murray Sabin's seasoned intellectual right-wing libertarian viewpoint but the only one that might have a pray in this election is Jersey Joe. As a big plus, Pennacchio has good elected experience and a solid conservative record. Anne Estabrook appears to be another empty-suit RINO that will be touted as an "electable moderate" by the powers that be, and end up with about 34% of the vote in the general if she's the nominee.

Unfortunately, this is New Jersey we're talking about. In any other state, Lautencorpse would have toast a long time ago. I'm from the Obama state, where the state GOP is a political punchline and the Dems have free reign to run rampant, but New Jersey is perhaps the only state in the union where the RAT machine could give the Chicago RATs a run for their money in sheer corruption and iron-fisted rule over a state. If the name "Tom Kean" can't win in the state anymore, even when the opponent is a completely corrupt, useless unlikeable appointed party hack, I fear no one can.

12 posted on 03/04/2008 5:32:59 PM PST by BillyBoy (Wasn't the "goal" on FR to STOP Rudy McRomney? Then VOTE HUCKABEE!!)
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To: Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; JohnnyZ; Kuksool; Clemenza

It is *great* news. Lautenberg is vulnerable, and I don’t think NJ Democrats have another corpse they can dig up to replace him on the ballot a la Torricelli.

State rep “Jersey Joe” Pennacchio appears to be the most conservative candidate (on both social and economic issues) and is doing the best in the head-to-head matchups. Pennacchio is a Catholic from North Jersey (Morris County), reputed by some to be the ideal makeup for a NJ Republican running statewide. I read today that liberal GOP Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen (also from Morris County) endorsed Pennacchio, so it may be the case that the RINO establishment won’t try to defeat him as they have done with so many conservatives in the past (when a conservative is going to be blackballed, the first RINOs to stab him in the back are those from his home turf).

While McCain was by no means our first choice, one has to admit that he will run strongly in New Jersey, and may even carry the state (President Bush got 46% in 2004), so an upset in the Senate race cannot be counted out even if Lautenberg doesn’t become this cycle’s “Bunning” (deemed to be “too old” at the last minute).


13 posted on 03/04/2008 5:35:56 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Fred Thompson appears human-sized because he is actually standing a million miles away.)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Sadly, the blue collar suburbanites (mostly ex-Philadephians) in South Jersey (Camden/Gloucester/Burlington counties) will cause Joey (and McCain) to lose, especially if Hillary is the nominee.


14 posted on 03/04/2008 5:38:44 PM PST by Clemenza (I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)
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To: Clintonfatigued

New Jersey, hopelessly liberal! They seem to have a guilt complex.


15 posted on 03/04/2008 5:39:38 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Id rather be hunting with dick than driving with ted)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; Extremely Extreme Extremist

Good point!

Jersey Joe (as he’s known) seems to have a personality that comes across well.


16 posted on 03/04/2008 5:43:47 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I donated some money to Murray Sabrin. I’m hoping we can send a good solid conservative libertarian Republican to the Senate.


17 posted on 03/04/2008 6:16:54 PM PST by MinnesotaLibertarian
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To: Clemenza

I can see it happening, on both counts.


18 posted on 03/04/2008 6:19:18 PM PST by MinnesotaLibertarian
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To: ronnie raygun

The dead get to vote in New Jersey. Don’t they deserve senate representation also?


19 posted on 03/04/2008 6:43:44 PM PST by Vigilanteman ((Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud))
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To: ronnie raygun

The dead get to vote in New Jersey. Don’t they deserve senate representation also?


20 posted on 03/04/2008 6:44:14 PM PST by Vigilanteman ((Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud))
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