Posted on 08/22/2018 10:10:31 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez (D) is facing a tightening race as he seeks to hold onto his Senate seat in the November elections, according to a new poll.
Menendez leads his Republican challenger Bob Hugin by just 6 points, 43 to 37 percent, in a Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday.
Mendendez previously held a 17-point lead, 49 to 32 percent, in a March survey conducted by Quinnipiac University.
The latest poll shows a racial gap between the candidates’ supporters. Hugin leads among white voters at 47 percent to Menendez’s 38 percent. Meanwhile, Menendez is supported by 51 percent of non-white voters while Hugin holds 18 percent.
Republicans back Hugin more heavily than Democrats support Menendez. Eighty-five percent of Republicans said they would vote for Hugin, while 74 percent of Democrats said they backed Menendez.
Independents are split almost evenly between the two, with 37 percent supporting Hugin and 33 percent backing Menendez.
Menendez was cleared of federal corruption charges in January, but the poll shows that the probe still hangs over him in voters' minds.
Forty-nine percent of New Jersey voters said Menendez was involved in serious wrongdoing, while 16 percent said that is not the case. Among Democrats, 38 percent said he was involved in serious wrongdoing while 25 percent said he did not.
Overall, more voters than not disapprove of the two-term New Jersey Democrat, with 47 percent of those polled disapproving of the incumbent and 40 percent approving.
Hugin is less well known in the state, with a majority of respondents, 54 percent, saying they had not heard enough about the Republican. Of those who expressed an opinion, 24 percent viewed him favorably and 20 percent viewed him unfavorably.
Twenty-five percent of voters said that ethics in government was the most important issue in their decision of who to elect as senator in November, followed by 22 percent who cited taxes, 19 percent health care, 14 percent immigration and 14 percent the economy.
Voters’ approval for New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) in the poll rose from 44 percent approval in March to 54 percent approval now. President Trump, meanwhile, earned a heavily negative approval rating at 33 percent to 63 percent.
Republicans currently hold a slim 51-49 seat majority in the Senate, while Democrats this year are defending 10 seats in states Trump won in 2016.
Menendez's seat was rated earlier this month by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report as "likely" to stay Democratic in the fall.
Quinnipiac University surveyed 908 New Jersey voters over the phone from Aug. 15-20. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.
The enemedia is quite fortunate in that the ones they hate (that's us) have a higher moral code than their own. Otherwise they'd be finding media corpses on a regular basis, or unexplained media disappearances would abound.
Hung jury and charges dropped.
That’s because the NJ Democrat machine cheats very openly, and often. I’ll never forget the Toricelli/Lautenberg ballot switcheroo, pulled long after it was no longer legal to do so, but Toricelli was suddenly polling behind and had to be replaced. (2002?) They even got the NJ Supreme Court to rubber stamp it. It was unconscionable.
Yeah he got off on something like a hung Jury or mistrial. I don’t remember which. He was all set to be re-tried and Sessions made that all go away.
As I just said. He was going to be re-tried(It was publicly announced that he was going to be) and the justice department suddenly changed their mind.
Forget it, Jake, it’s New Jersey.
I’ve been telling everybody Scott is going to beat Nelson. He has all the momentum. Nelson is fading.
Wait! Montanta is in the tossup category now? That’s good news. Last I had heard, Testor had a decent sized lead. That would be a nice pickup.
What you’re seeing here is the power of incumbency in a Senate race. It is hard to defeat a sitting U.S. Senator. In a state like New Jersey, it’s even hard to defeat one who is a criminal.
Hugin could win Middlesex County, the new bellwether in Jersey politics.
Middlesex has white enclaves that can go for Hugin, but I don’t think a pharmaceutical exec can win a Senate seat in NJ.
Newark, Elizabeth, Dover, Perth Amboy, Lawnside, Atlantic City, Harrison, Trenton, New Brunswick will all go D-Menendez, as Menendez is leading with black and Latino voters, but swing voters will be the key in the fall.
Hugin is a never Trump, LGBTQ loving, illegal immigrant supporting, baby killing a-hole. I am really going to have to hold my nose to vote for him but anything is better than Bob Menendez. However, he’s no Republican.
Why worry or even take polls when everybody knows there is going to be a YUGE blue wave:-)
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A completely illegal and blatant act.
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/torricellilautenberg-perverting-rule-law
Doug Forrester was his GOP contestant(in a rugged race).
(in a rugged race).
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Should be *rigged*
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