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N.J. for GOP?
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 7/23/06 | Bob Novak

Posted on 07/24/2006 8:44:14 AM PDT by cotton1706

New Jersey, dominated by Democrats in recent elections, has become the best Republican prospect for winning a Democratic-held Senate seat this year. New polls last week indicated appointive Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez falling back to an even race with his Republican challenger, state Sen. Tom Kean Jr.

Quinnipiac University's poll showed Kean gaining nine percentage points in one month to take a two-point lead. The Monmouth University/Gannett poll's first Senate survey had Kean trailing Menendez by one point, but enjoying a 15-point lead among key independent voters.

Kean's edge in the Quinnipiac survey marked the first time a New Jersey Republican candidate for the Senate had led a summer poll since Sen. Clifford Case in 1972. Big Democratic July margins in the state often are trimmed in November. Senators Bill Bradley in 1990 and Frank Lautenberg in 1994 enjoyed summer leads of 46 and 26 points, respectively, before winning by three points each.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: byrne; congress; corzine; election2006; electioncongress; elections; flimflamflorio; florio; iamagayamerican; joncorzine; kean; lautenberg; mcgreevey; newjersey; nj; roberttorricelli; sopranos; thesopranos; tomkean; tomkeanjr; toricelli; torricelli; whitman
The fact that the people of NJ have not been allowed to choose their own senator in quite some time may have something to do with this. Menendez and Lautenburg were put in office by the political elites.
1 posted on 07/24/2006 8:44:16 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

New Jerseyites are, sadly, certifiable morons who voted in some of our nations most corrupt politicians: Florio, the Torch, Corzine, Lautenberg, and (possibly) Menendez.


2 posted on 07/24/2006 8:47:10 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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To: cotton1706

Mewnedez is Slimy....he will win.


3 posted on 07/24/2006 8:47:45 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: cotton1706
the people of NJ have not been allowed
to choose their own senator in quite some time


that & mcgreedy
4 posted on 07/24/2006 8:48:04 AM PDT by firewalk
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To: FormerACLUmember
Hi All-

"...New Jerseyites are, sadly, certifiable morons..."


I'm assuming you mean the folks who don't post on FreeRepublic.com and cast their votes based upon which person's sign they see posted most-frequently at the side of the road...

~ Blue Jays ~

5 posted on 07/24/2006 8:50:33 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: cotton1706

despite the polls, i have heard this before. believe it when i see it. lets hope.


6 posted on 07/24/2006 8:51:33 AM PDT by APRPEH (You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.)
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To: Blue Jays

"...New Jerseyites are, sadly, certifiable morons..."
I'm assuming you mean the folks who don't post on FreeRepublic.com and cast their votes based upon which person's sign they see posted most-frequently at the side of the road...


I mean Jersey democrat party lemmings!


7 posted on 07/24/2006 8:51:56 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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To: cotton1706

In The Peoples' Republik of Joisey, the GOP-RINOs and the liberal-demokkkRATs are just flip sides of the same corrupt coin.


8 posted on 07/24/2006 8:54:14 AM PDT by butternut_squash_bisque (The recipe's at my FR HomePage. Try it!)
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To: FormerACLUmember

waving hello to hillarytown...(:


9 posted on 07/24/2006 8:54:49 AM PDT by firewalk
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To: FormerACLUmember

Even in the GOP leaning year of 2002, NJ reelected LOUSE-enberg, after saying he opposed the death penalty for terrorists. After that revolting incident, I would be stunned if NJ were to dump their other left wing Democrat senator this year.


10 posted on 07/24/2006 8:55:40 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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"New Jerseyites are, sadly, certifiable morons who voted in some of our nations most corrupt politicians: Florio, the Torch, Corzine, Lautenberg, and (possibly) Menendez"

.....and the super sleazy McGreevy.
But then they did vote in a Republican Governor Christine Todd Whitman, not that long ago.
We will see.

But yeah, Robert Menendez is a hard line, illegal alien loving slimeball, that needs to go down.
11 posted on 07/24/2006 8:55:48 AM PDT by Jameison
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To: cotton1706

Remember to factor in the usual lib poll bias. This puts Kean up by about 10 points.


12 posted on 07/24/2006 9:07:20 AM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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