Senate race poll: Menendez holds slight lead on Kean
2006-10-05
Source: Associated Press
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rss feedThe Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate has opened a slight lead over his Republican rival, according to a new poll out Thursday, with Democrats lining up more solidly behind Sen. Robert Menendez and distancing themselves from Tom Kean Jr.
The Fairleigh Dickinson-PublicMind poll gives Menendez a 42 percent to 37 percent edge over Kean among likely voters. The lead grows to 7 percentage points if voters who are leaning toward a particular candidate are included.
The telephone poll of 514 probable voters taken Sept. 27 through Oct. 2 has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
With about a month to go until the election, 81 percent of Democratic voters say they support Menendez, while only 10 percent of Democrats say they will support Kean. Kean's support among Democrats has tumbled from 19 percent last month, while Menendez had 68 percent support before Labor Day, according to the poll.
In New Jersey, registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans, and unaffiliated voters far outnumber those of either party.
Polling experts credit Menendez's television ad campaign with boosting his name recognition and helping his poll numbers. A Rutgers-Eagleton poll released Sept. 28 and a Quinnipiac University poll of Sept. 20 both had the race a virtual tie, as did the previous two PublicMind polls, released July 20 and Aug. 30.
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