Corzine, Christie Tied In New Poll For New Jersey Governor

TRENTON, N.J. — In another indication that the New Jersey governor's race will go down to the wire, a new poll finds Gov. Jon Corzine and Republican Chris Christie tied among likely voters at 39 percent each.

The Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll released Tuesday, two weeks before Election Day, has independent Chris Daggett polling at 14 percent.

Poll director Patrick Murray says the latest poll indicates weakening support for Christie, a former federal prosecutor. A Monmouth/Gannett poll released in early August had Christie up by 14 percentage points over the Democratic incumbent.

The telephone poll of 1,004 likely voters was taken Oct. 15-18 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

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On the Net: http://www.monmouth.edu/polling

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[bluerednot]

12:11 PM on 10/20/2009

OK - Corzine originally kind of advanced the idea that he was so incredibly rich that his decisions would not be swayed by outside influences - but time after time he has ended up in situations that are really puzzling. He has not really been able to fulfill the hopes that many have had for him & he has inexplicably been altogether too willing to go along with a variety of special interests.
NONETHELESS, the real disaster that looms on the horizon would be Christie - a purely opportunistic, self indulgent, pawn of the political right who is completely devoid of a moral compass. Cristie has demonstrated that he is fundamentally clueless on the financial front - which means that he would simply follow the instructions of the GOP power brokers - in the same way that Christie Whitman did - and take a very difficult situation and make it monumentally worse.