Posted on 09/12/2008 8:23:19 PM PDT by Maelstorm
A new poll shows that U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D., N.J.) enjoys a comfortable lead over Republican challenger Dick Zimmer heading into the fall election season.
The Fairleigh Dickinson-PublicMind poll has Lautenberg leading, 46 percent to 35 percent, with Zimmer struggling to get his name known to the electorate.
About 41 percent of respondents say they haven't heard of the former New Jersey congressman.
Poll director Peter Woolley says Zimmer's name recognition may be suffering because of the attention given to the presidential election drama.
Lautenberg is known to nine out of 10 New Jersey voters polled.
The telephone poll of 840 likely voters was taken Sept. 4-7 and has a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
Zimmer doesn't have a chance unless Obama screws up in the first debate and this thing turns into a landslide for McCain.
-when will they be sending Sarah out for all the pubbies in close races?
If Palin can spare a couple of visits to NJ, that should be enough to knock off the dinasour Lautenberg. I know, I live here in NJ. Palin will be enough to bring in the Indepdendents (NJ is 1/3 Ind).
Lautenberg could dead, complete with maggots running through his eye sockets, and the idiots living in New Jersey would re-elect him anyway.
I doubt Lautenberg will lose NJ.
He is a crook, a low life and a totally evil person. Just the way the majority of NJ voters like their politicians.
Shame that there are those who seethe with how awful it is and can do little about it at this point.
I think I will contact Zimmer’s office and see if I can stuff envelopes or something.
You got that right Chet 99. The stupidity of Jersey voters is confounding in its inanity. I think next year I'm outta here -- just one more in the 60K net loss of residency each year, maybe it'll be 100K by then.
Good Lord, it’s Dick Zimmer again.
How many times is he going to try in a state that is HOPELESSLY DEMOCRATIC ?
They don’t care if a party has a perverted governor, a corrupt senator or an influence peddler, they’ll continue to vote Democratic.
NJ is HOPELESS.
Forget about Zick Dimmer...he’s toast.
Leaving New Jersey is the best thing I ever did. Florida might not be perfect, but it is not dominated by Teaneck, Newark, and the bootlick liberal money camp of the Upper West Side of Manhattan. New Jersey is a lost cause. The left can keep it. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Colorado are beautiful states where your presence can make a difference. It’s long past time the liberals in New Jersey had to pay for their choices. Let them wallow in their own mire.
Save yourself, man. :)
Zimmer’s rose colored glasses theoretical upper limit is 45% of the vote.
It would require Obama’s campaign to tank, the Bergen county Democrats to implode, a blizzard in Hudson county and a national emergency terror attack plus a dozen more stars aligning for Zimmer to have a fighting chance.
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