Summer Senate polls
By Wally EdgeDemocratic U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg leads Republican challenger Dick Zimmer by thirteen percentage points, 49%-36%, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released today. A July 17, 2006 Quinnipiac poll had Republican Tom Kean, Jr. and incumbent Bob Menendez in a statistical dead heat: Kean 40%, Menendez 38%. A June 19, 2002 Quinnipiac poll had incumbent Bob Torricelli leading his GOP challenger, Douglas Forrester, 44%-36% And a July 27, 2000 Quinnipiac poll had Democrat Jon Corzine running twenty points ahead of Republican Bob Franks, 50%-30%. By Election Day, only the Corzine/Franks race was close.
For extreme political junkies, more on Zimmer polls: when he ran for the U.S. Senate in 1996, a June Eagleton/Rutgers poll showed him trailing Torricelli by eight points, 39%-31%. The race was 38%-32% in September, 40%-35% in October, and in the final week of the campaign, 40%-36%. Torricelli defeated Zimmer, 53%-43%.
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Zimmer is one Frank Lautenberg mistake/stumble away from being right in the thick of things.
If McCain keeps it within 5 points, he's got a shot. If McCain packs up and pulls out of NJ, it won't matter how bad Frank screws up.
Zimmer
Wont win, Frank wont stumble.
Frank forgets to stumble?
It is hard to believe that this old fool will not stumble. He will just forget that he is the US Senator and answer the question: It is all Iraq War. We Democrats promised to end it in 2006. That's how we got the control of the Congress. You know, we fooled people the old way. Make promises and then f... them after you are elected. That's the Democratic way. Ooops! I am sorry. This mike was on? No, it is all Iraq War, and that fellow in the White House. What's his name? Bushy, I think.
Thank you Senator Lautenberg for explaining the economic problems facing NJ today.
Only 13 points?
Just imagine how big the lead would be if the Democrats actually fielded a LIVING, BREATHING candidate instead of Lautenberg.
The NJGOP is so incredibly amoral, bereft of ideas and bankrupt, it can't even beat a dead man walking . . .
Even if Lautenberg "stumbles" (someone will have to drop the casket), he'll still beat Tricky Dick Zimmer by a load.
Only 13 points?
Just imagine how big the lead would be if the Democrats actually fielded a LIVING, BREATHING candidate instead of Lautenberg.
The NJGOP is so incredibly amoral, bereft of ideas and bankrupt, it can't even beat a dead man walking . . .
Even if Lautenberg "stumbles" (someone will have to drop the casket), he'll still beat Tricky Dick Zimmer by a load.
The NJGOP
couldn't beat Linda McCartney in a sack race.