Exclusive Poll: New Jersey Senate Poll (The Torch is in Deep Trouble)

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[Dales]

Jul 23, 2002 10:17 pm US/Eastern

(KYW)-(Trenton)-The latest exclusive Eyewitness News Survey USA Poll of the New Jersey senate race shows a real deadlock between incumbent Senator Robert Torricelli and Republican challenger Douglas Forrester.

The poll shows each candidate with 43 percent of the vote, with the rest undecided or planning to vote for other candidates. The margin of error in this poll was plus or minus 3.9 percent.

Eyewitness News Anchor Larry Kane says the survey of 661 likely voters is an early indication of what could be a very close and expensive race. But Kane says Torricelli, hurt by an ethics investigation, is still the incumbent and will have a large war chest for November. Remember, the Democrats hold a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, and a loss of one or two seats can change that in a flash.

Kane says Forrester's challenge is to match master-fundraiser Torricelli dollar-for-dollar.

[Tacis]

Torricelli in trouble? Come on, give me a break. He is a democrat, for god's sake. He doesn't care about polls. Dead people, union members, blacks and foreigners don't have a say in polls but in elections in NJ, can each cast many votes.

[gunshy]

Democrats never lose close elections, there are always more democrat votes to be found in the ballot box.

[Consort]

Types of pasta

Anelli / aniline: small rings used for soup
Bucatini: Long medium tubes used for basic pasta dishes
Cannelloni: Large, thick round pasta tubes
Capelli d¡¦angelo: Thin strands of ¡¥angel hair¡¦ very similar to spaghetti
Cochiglie: Ridged tiny shells the size of lentils.
Cresti di gallo: curved shape, brown in colour.
Ditali/ ditalini: Short tubes similar to macaroni
Eliche: Loose spirals.
Farfalle: Bows used as an interesting shape for pasta and sauce dishes.
Fettuccine: Medium ribbons
Fusilli: Long twists often used in desserts and sweet dishes.
Gemelli: Two pieces wrapped together to look like ¡¥twins¡¦
Lasagne: Sheets of flat rectangular pasta
Linguini: Long flat ribbons similar to fettuccini.
Lumache: Snail-shaped shells
Lumaconi: Big shells often used for fillings
Macaroni: Long or short cut tubes, a favourite with cheese sauce.
Orecchiette: Ear-shaped
Penne: Quill shaped small pasta
Rigatoni: Thick ridged tubes
Spaghetti: Fine or medium rods
Tagliarini: Thin ribbons
Tagliatelle: Broad ribbons
Torricelli: Worm shaped foul smelling pasta, a favourite with American Liberals
Vermicelli: Fine pasta, usually folded into skeins and stuffed/filled.
Vermincelli: (see Torricelli)
Ziti rigati: Medium sized ridged tubular pasta

[hobbes1]

I’m no mathematician, but I’m thinking that adds up to 86% of the vote, meaning that once again a critical election will be decided by the 14% of the voting public that is too stupid to even know the candidates or issues.

Leave the yuppie soccer moms out of this.

[dead]

They'll just vote for the taller one anyway.

[justshutupandtakeit]

How long before the "There is no difference between ___ and ___ ____is just a RINO" crowd shows up to crap all over the challenger?

[Richard Kimball]

I’m no mathematician, but I’m thinking that adds up to 86% of the vote, meaning that once again a critical election will be decided by the 14% of the voting public that is too stupid to even know the candidates or issues.

Any time an incumbent is polling at less than 50%, that's bad news for them (except for Clinton, who was able to triangulate between Perot and the two corpses the Pubbies ran at him. Unfortunately, you are correct, though. That's why political ads are so stupid. (Deep voice, "do you realize that Stanley Snootman barbecues children and eats them for breakfast? It's true, on BBBB Radio, Snootman said, "I love to have a barbecue in the the back yard with all the neighbors and their kids." Do we need a cannibalistic pedophile in the United States Senate?)(this ad was not intended to offend NAMBLA, Friends of Jeffrey Dahmer, or any of the other fine organizations that contribute to the Democratic Party.)

[Clemenza]

Not to mention all the illegals/green-cards via motor-voter in my neighborhood.

Don't you live in Costa Rica?

[sandydipper]

Senate Ethics Committee - ROFLMAO!

[Mudboy Slim]

"I don't care who the opposition is, Toricelli should be tossed out."

Yep...the Torch is a Mafia/Union stooge and his retention of a Senate seat embarrasses even the Senate's low standards. We'll see if the folks from NooJoisey are embarrassed enuff to do something about it, I reckon...MUD

[Black Agnes]

Nah, costa-rica is my vacation destination.

[BikerNYC]

What evidence is there that he is part of the Mafia? Or is that just because he's Italian? I think it's better to just concentrate on what he's done in connection with the Chang case. That will resonante most with voters.

[newfreep]

Is the Republican Forrester conservative or another NE RINO?

[Coop]

He's been endorsed by Giuliani and Don Imus, whatever that's worth.

http://www.forrester2002.com/

[Saundra Duffy]

For victory!!

[newfreep]

That's not very reassuring, is it?

[Dales]

Much more reassuring than "Re-elected Senator Bob Torricelli".

[teletech]

New Jersey is another state like Illinois where the dead vote early and often. Dogs and cats and all manner of pets vote too! I don't think the Torch is going anywhere, do you?

[newfreep]

You're absolutely right.....and it may help the pubs regain control of Senate. If that happens (and they maintain the House), W will have no excuse to promote/push liberal programs. We must stop the socialists from total control of America - God, they make me want to puke!

[Coop]

That's not very reassuring, is it?

Imus doesn't do much for me. Giuliani's endorsement in NJ, however, is huge (IMHO). A lot of Jersey folks were intimately touched by 9/11 and Rudy's influence.