Posted on 03/19/2012 4:48:20 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) comfortably leads his likely Republican opponent, state Sen. Joseph Kyrillos (R-Monmouth), by 10 percentage points in New Jersey’s U.S. Senate race, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll made public Monday.
If the election were held today, 43 percent of voters would cast a ballot for Menendez, while 33 percent would vote for Kyrillos. Another 23 percent say they’re not sure whom they would pick.
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I wouldn’t call an incumbent polling at 43% in a comfortable position...
An incumbent U.S. Senator who has spent millions on his last reelection and tried to stay in the local news is in trouble if he’s only polling 43% of the vote. I think that this race is a sleeper and that Joe Kryillos has potential. I just hope the moneymen come through.
“I wouldn’t call an incumbent polling at 43% in a comfortable position...”
Very well-put.
Menendez isn’t going to lose. NJ is too liberal.
“I wouldn’t call an incumbent polling at 43% in a comfortable position”
Especially in this state.
Christie was trailing by over 20 pts with 4 around weeks left. This Dem is toast.
Pray for America
Registered voters and only 43%.
“Menendez isn’t going to lose. NJ is too liberal.”
Some of us thought the same when Chris Christie was running and he won.
“Registered voters and only 43%.”
Good point. If Chris Christie is the Vice Presidential nominee, look for him to stump for Kryillos, a state Senator who is one of his closest allies.
DEWEY WINS!
“Menendez isn’t going to lose. NJ is too liberal.”
I don’t know; Christie won (and is still popular), and whatever others think of him NJ libs are furious. He’s a heck of a lot more conservative than his opponent was, and he has all of the right people arrayed against him.
NJ can’t afford the luxury of being liberal anymore; unlike CA, we seem to know it.
“Christie was trailing by over 20 pts with 4 around weeks left. This Dem is toast.”
Oddly enough, Christie’s successes may be the only chance Menendez has; if things are visibly better (and here in NJ the decline has at least slowed) Menendez may skate through. I also believe NJ is slowing learning the true costs of liberal policies; the anarchy predicted by the laying off of 1/3 of some cities’ cops hasn’t materialized.
Hey, it’s Nunion Jersey. What else would you expect? Amazing how many hugely wealthy liberals support the dems because they “understand” and “sympathize” with the common everyday shlub. Puleeezzzz. Maybe the ows’rs should occupy some of those mansions. Maybe springsteens many acre farm. Or bon jovi’s run down house. I know there are a lot of good decent folks in NJ, they just have to take the lead and get it done.
I am hopeful, as Joe Kryillos has plenty of room for growth. Menendez is a well-known quantity in New Jersey.
The OWS crowd certainly tied up the financial district back when they started out (before they were compromised by every other lefty cause); when they first started they were outspoken in their criticism of Obama as well as the outsourcing of our jobs (financial jobs in particular - the original protesters looked like people who had been laid off in the financial district, of which there is no shortage). The scruffy rich kids showed up later, b!tching about eating meat and blood for oil and blah blah blah.
Do the math: Newark +Camden= more than everybody else.
I have hopes for this race. It’s largely a matter of steering enough money into the Kryillos campaign.
It is difficult because these jobs involve what the senator can bring to a state rather than whether or not they are a liberal, conservative, or a total ass.
If Menendez can score any pork of note before the election, he may take it (even if it is a new Jetsons Spaceport that will never be used to be built in the Meadowlands with federal money).
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