FDU PublicMind - April 13, 2005 Release

Tables

Question: Now, turning to New Jersey… In your opinion, do you think things in New Jersey are moving in the right direction or do you think the state has gotten off on the wrong track?
	All	Dem	Ind	Rep	Con	Mod	Lib	Jan. ‘05	Oct. ‘ 04	Aug. ‘04	April ‘04
Right Direction	29%	39	25	19	23	32	34	40%	40%	31%	42%
Wrong track	59%	49	58	71	67	55	52	45%	48%	51%	39%
Don’t know	12%	13	16	9	10	13	14	15%	12%	18%	20%

Question: Have you heard of [rotate list]? If you haven't just tell me. [If yes, ask:] Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of …? Would that be very or somewhat?
[ROTATE NAMES]	Haven’t heard of	Heard of	Very Favor- able	Somewhat Favor- able	Somewhat Unfavor- able	Very Unfavor- able	Not Sure
Richard Codey	22%	78%	21	30	16	9	23
Jon Corzine	8%	91%	18	27	16	16	23
Frank Lautenberg	12%	88%	17	28	14	16	22
George Norcross	68%	31%	1	9	19	32	39
Previous Surveys…
Codey 01/05	35%	65%	18	30	4	3	44
Codey 10/04	59%	42%	6	17	6	4	66
Codey 8/04	68%	32%	11	19	3	6	60
Corzine 01/05	11%	90%	22	31	12	9	26
Corzine 8/04	13%	87%	21	27	10	10	31
Corzine 7/04	18%	82%	18	28	14	11	27

Question: How would you rate the job Richard Codey is doing as governor—excellent, good, only fair, or poor?
	All	Dem	Ind	Rep	Men	Women	Jan 05	McGreevey April 04
Excellent (6%) or Good (35%)	44%	53	41	36	45	44	41	31%
Only Fair (27%) or Poor (3%)	47%	38	49	55	49	45	30	66%
Don’t know/unsure	9%	9	10	9	5	12	30	4%

Question: Do you think that Richard Codey has done a good enough job as governor to deserve reelection or would you rather see a new person in that job?
	All	Dem.	Ind.	Rep.	Men	Women	Jan 05	McGreevey April 04
Re-elect	33%	41	29	26	33	33	25%	29%
New person	49%	40	47	59	52	47	32%	57%
Don’t know/ref.	18%	18	24	15	15	20	42%	14%

Question: How would you rate the job the state legislature in Trenton is doing is doing—excellent, good, only fair, or poor?
	All	Dem.	Ind.	Rep.	Men	Women	April 2004
Excellent or Good	20%	27	10	16	18	22	24%
Only Fair or Poor	69%	60	77	75	75	64	62%
Don’t know	11%	13	12	9	7	15	14%

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