Posted on 10/28/2009 6:35:01 AM PDT by ScottinVA
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine leads Republican challenger Christopher Christie for the first time in their five-month slugfest, on top 43 - 38 percent among likely voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Independent candidate Christopher Daggett has 13 percent, with 5 percent undecided.
This compares to a 41 - 40 percent Christie lead, with 14 percent for Daggett, in an October 14 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University.
Among Daggett supporters, 38 percent say they might change their mind: 43 percent say Christie is their second choice, while 27 percent say Gov. Corzine is number two.
Only 12 percent of Christie voters and 19 percent of Corzine backers say they might change their mind.
Corzine leads 79 - 8 percent among Democratic likely voters, with 10 percent for Daggett. Christie leads 79 - 7 percent among Republicans, with 9 percent for Daggett, and 45 - 30 percent among independent voters, with 20 percent for Daggett.
New Jersey voters disapprove 54 - 39 percent of the job Corzine is doing, still negative, but his best overall approval rating in months. Independent voters disapprove 68 - 29 percent.
"You could see it coming. Gov. Jon Corzine's numbers crept steadily up and Christopher Christie's steadily shrank and now, for the first time, we have Corzine ahead," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
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main problem here is Daggett
bleeds off support from Christie more than Corzine
43% according to this poll have Christie as the second choice
27% Corzine
Is Corzine really a Kennedy?
I never believed any poll that showed him losing. It’s New Jersey for crying out loud.
All of that pollution in south Jersey must be wrecking some brains in New Jersey.
The Independents? Polling different people? A 5 point lead is big in a week, no?
They are now including fradulent and dead voters.
Mighty hoax from little ACORNs grow....................
Rasmussen had Christie +3 on the same day.
It’s Quinnipiac. Show me a Gallup, Battlefield, Zogby or Rasmussen with Corzine up and I’ll start to get worried.
On the other hand, this is New Jersey we're talking about. Not only must Christie win, but he needs a margin that exceeds the margin of fraud, and that'll be a tall order.
This poll is nonsense. Corzine is going to lose.
First Al Franken, and now this.
The NY race is different. See Michael Medved's piece of today.
Christie is the 1st choice of 40% of the voters. That’s not really a winning formula
This just made my stomach turn.
ACORN will deliver it for Corzine...with 110% of eligible voters in Newark turning out.
Any ideas about how to pre-empt this?Peacefully? Lawfully?
Oh, he probably was "losing" at one point, but NJ voters can be counted on to cuddle at the feet of the nearest dem come Election Day. Voters up there disapprove of Corzine, 54% - 29%, but seem to want him re-elected anyway.
this is also a single poll two other polls out this week had Christie ahead by 3 and 4 points i think
Name the bet.
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