Honestly, I assure you I'm for whomever the GOP nominee is! However, I'm also a political realist. Corzine was an unproven politician in 2000. Since then, he's only become more well known and more popular among the masses, correct?
He's certainly better known, and also more popular. In fall 2001 he had a 35% approval rating, but mostly because he was such an unknown (24% dispproval). Corzine had 53% job approval in a recent poll, but only pulled 42-44% in head-to-head matchups with Schundler (24%) and Forrester (29%). Under 55% is considered vulnerable.