Poll Shows N.J. Senate Race a Dead Heat

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060920/D8K8I9381.html

Poll Shows N.J. Senate Race a Dead Heat
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Sep 20, 7:22 AM (ET)

By DONNA DE LA CRUZ

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate race in New Jersey, which a Republican hasn't won in 34 years, remains virtually tied with less than two months before Election Day, a poll released Wednesday shows.

Among likely voters, including those leaning toward a candidate, Republican challenger Tom Kean Jr. holds a 48-45 percent edge over Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, the Quinnipiac University poll showed. Six percent remain undecided. This survey of 688 likely voters has an error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

Among the 1,233 registered voters surveyed, Menendez has a 41-38 percent edge. This survey has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

The state's large bloc of unaffiliated voters is evenly split on whether they support Menendez or Kean, and they hold the key to deciding the election, said Clay Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. In recent history, these voters have swung Democratic.

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[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Yeah, and Bush was gonna win New Jersey...

They foisted this nonsense in both 2000 and 2004. It was comical then, and it's comical now.

[Stevepol]

2. How comical it is depends on the type of voting machines NJ has.

[VWolf]

3. My district has the mechanical lever systems

No Diebolding here

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Pfffft

Defeatist bullshit.

Get people out to the polls and stop the nonsense with the machines.

[AX10]

5. Quinnipiac is showing their GOP bias again. They also claim...

that Dewine is ahead by 1 point in Ohio.

[GeorgiaDem69]

6. Actually, most polls are showing this race close

and Dems aren't helped by the investigation on Menendez.

Don't know anything about the New York Observer as far as its politics, but here's a quote from a recent article.

"For now, the Menendez-Kean race is essentially a tie, something of an achievement in its own right for New Jersey’s G.O.P., which typically enjoys all the September success of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. What’s more, the most recent polls haven’t even measured the impact of a recently revealed federal criminal investigation of Mr. Menendez, the consequences of which Democrats privately describe with words ranging from “pretty bad” to “fatal.”"

http://observer.com/20060925/20060925_Steve_Kornacki_opinions_wiseguys.asp

[MasonJar]

7. Come on NJ DUs. This cannot happen...please,

[KingFlorez]

8. Come election day, Democrats will turn out