Posted on 07/08/2009 10:41:26 PM PDT by AmericanSphinx71
Republican challenger Chris Christie has lost his post-primary bounce but still leads incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine in the New Jersey governor’s race.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state shows Christie with a seven-point lead over Corzine, 46% to 39%. A month ago, immediately following his GOP Primary victory, Christie led by 13 percentage points. The current numbers are just about identical to the pre-primary numbers from May.
Corzine has recently launched a series of attack ads questioning Christie’s ethics, and most analysts expect the race to tighten. New Jersey polls often show Republican candidates doing better early in the campaign with Democrats coming back in the fall. Corzine is expected to heavily outspend Christie, too.
A Republican has not won a statewide election in the Garden State since 1997.
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The problem these pollsters always make is that New Jersey’s dead are undersampled in their polls. Corzine will win handily.
Absolutely correct. Perhaps in no other state in the nation is the parasite/host ratio as bad as it is in New Jersey.
ACORN will have none of this.
NJ is a utterly hopeless state, A Repub win there will be a big suprise considering even the most unethical corrupt Dem will find it easy to win in jersey.
With a lot of time left this makes me nervous.
RECOUNT!
Corzine wins by one vote.
Corzine wins by one vote.
Keep recounting and get a bigger Dem margin.
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