| A Strategic Vision (R) poll out today has Tom Kean Jr leading Bob Menendez by 33%-27%. That's the end of the good news for Junior. A plurality (39%) still have not made up their minds.
Both candidates are largely unknown to the public at this point.
Favorable Unfavorable Undecided
Menendez 23% 12% 65%
Kean Jr. 21% 8% 71%
The numbers will shift once they realize daddy isn't actually running again. It gets worse for Kean.
By a margin of 58%-30%, New Jerseyans say they do not want the US Surpreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade. Kean Jr is pro-choice, but even pro-choice Republicans recently showed that when it comes time to approve Supreme Court justices, party comes before principles.
Only 37% of New Jerseyans approve of Bush's job performance (57% disapprove), and just 34% approve of his handling of the economy and Iraq.
Menendez voted against giving the President the authority to go to war in Iraq. Even with the hindsight of this disasterous distraction and the knowledge that it was based on lies, Kean Jr has said that had he been in the US Senate in 2002, he would have voted for war. Do we need any more proof that Junior just wants to be a rubberstamp for Bush? That's not what New Jersey wants. |
