“Menendez Is Just Not Selling Very Well”
Roberto writes, “Another day ... another poll ... one more day of bad news for NJ Senator Bob Menendez”.
Pundits are scratching their heads wondering why Menendez is doing so lousy in a race that they felt was a lock for the democrats. Herb Jackson … quotes political pundit Larry Sabato as saying "Slowly it is dawning on me and others that Menendez is just not selling very well . . . There isn't a lot of attractive warmth to Menendez and it shows".
Posted by Enlighten-NewJersey @ 8:55 PM
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3 Comments:
Kean's name is playing very well. I think that it has helped that the father was so credible leading the 911 commision.
I don't think it's Kean's name playing well -- this is an all-Menendez thing. If we were seeing a pro-Kean rather than anti-Menendez poll, Tom would be higher than 44%.
I think that in the event Menendez drops out of the race and gets replaced on the ballot by Rob Andrews which I am predicting will happen, Kean doesn't get hurt.
Unlike Doug Forrester in '02 who based his entire campaign on not being Bob Torricelli, Sen. Kean has a platform and a plethora of issues to run on besides ethics. Menendez however, has been basing his entire campaign on not being President Bush which is probably why Kean had a two point lead in the last Quinnipiac Poll before Menendez's questionable dealings even surfaced.
Kean is not ahead just because he's not Bob Menendez, he's ahead because he is proving himself to be the superior candidate in the minds of the New Jersey voters.
The polls have remained relatively close unlike in the Forrester/Torricelli race which started out close until Torricelli got hit with the ethics issue and was down by double digits all of a sudden.
I would personally like to see polling data from South Jersey. I really think that Menendez is going to get eaten alive down there.
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