FDU PublicMind - July 19, 2006 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	Party			NJ Public Pension House- hold		Apr	Mar	Jan	Oct	Sep	Jul	Apr	Jan
	All	D	I	R	Yes	No	‘06	‘06	‘06	‘05	‘05	‘05	‘05	‘05
Right Direction	32%	43	31	19	33	32	26	34	34	23	39	36	29	40
Wrong track	57%	42	53	76	54	58	57	47	48	64	49	51	59	45
Don't know	11%	15	16	5	13	11	17	19	18	13	12	13	12	15

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	Some-what Favor- able	Some-what Un- favor- able	Very Un- favor- able	No opin- ion
Jon Corzine	2%	98%	23	25	14	23	15
Richard Codey	16%	84%	36	28	8	7	20
Joe Roberts	65%	35%	4	15	18	20	42
Frank Lautenberg	10%	90%	22	27	11	18	22
Previous Surveys…
Corzine 04/06	3%	97%	16	26	14	21	22
Corzine 03/06	5%	95%	20	30	10	12	26
Corzine 01/06	4%	96%	19	24	17	14	26
Corzine 10/05	0%	100%	23	25	16	21	15
Corzine 9/05	8%	92%	19	27	17	15	21
Corzine 7/05	7%	94%	23	34	14	15	15
Corzine 4/05	8%	91%	18	27	16	16	23
Corzine 1/05	11%	90%	22	31	12	9	26
Codey 03/06	19%	81%	39	32	8	4	15
Codey 01/06	16%	84%	41	27	9	4	19
Codey 10/05	11%	89%	28	33	10	6	22
Codey 7/05	15%	85%	21	39	16	10	15
Codey 4/05	22%	78%	21	30	16	9	23
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
Lautenberg 03/06	15%	85%	22	30	13	13	22
Lautenberg 01/06	15%	85%	18	33	13	14	22
Lautenberg 7/05	11%	89%	19	36	15	16	14

Question: How would you rate the job Jon Corzine is doing as governor…[READ]?
		All	Dem	Ind	Rep	NJ Pension	Non-NJ Pension	AprilAll	MarchAll
	Excellent	11%	18	8	4	19	9	5	5
	Good	32%	41	33	20	29	33	23	30
	Only fair	27%	24	29	31	35	27	36	31
	Poor	24%	12	23	41	14	26	22	8
	unsure (vol)	5%	4	8	4	4	6	14	26

Question: Do you approve or disapprove of the job Jon Corzine is doing as governor?
		All	Dem	Ind	Rep	NJ Pen- sion	Non-NJ Pen- sion	April	March
	Approve	50%	68	51	29	58	48	39%	47%
	Disapprove	37%	22	29	61	27	39	36%	16%
	Neither/ neutral/ mixed/ DK	13%	10	20	11	15	14	24%	38%

Question: Do you approve or disapprove of the job Jon Corzine did handling the budget?
[rotate]		All	Dem	Ind	Rep	NJ Pension	Non-NJ Pension
	Approve	46%	60	48	26	55	44
	Disapprove	44%	29	41	66	29	49
	Neither/neutral/mixed/	10%	10	11	8	17	8

Question: Who do you think was more responsible for the budget impasse and the shutdown of New Jersey government the … or the… ?
[rotate]		All	Dem	Ind	Rep
	legislature	43%	52	41	34
	governor	31%	25	21	44
	Both equally [VOL]	18%	16	24	19
	Neither/other [VOL]	1%	--	3	--
	Don't know [VOL]	7%	7	12	4

Question: Who do you think is most responsible for the state's recurring budget problems?
[rotate]			All	D	I	R
Governor Corzine			6%	5	1	8
the state legislature			20%	17	23	24
the Democratic Party			7%	3	7	14
the Republican Party			5%	9	1	1
Salaries and benefits of public employees			9%	9	10	9
Slow economy			5%	6	6	5
Previous governors [Ask: “which one in particular?”]			35%	38	38	30
N=234	Codey	2%
	McGreevey	20%
	Whitman	48%
	Other [vol.]	5%
	All [vol.]	20%
	Unsure [vol]	6%
Other or none of the above (VOL)			8%	8	10	6
Don't know/ref.			5%	6	4	4

Question : In order to raise money in the new budget, the sales tax will increase from 6 to 7 cents. Given the state's budget problems, was this a good idea or a bad idea?
[rotate]		All	D	Ind	R	NJ Pension	Non-NJ Pension	April ‘06
	Good idea	57%	71	53	42	70	55	36%
	Bad idea	35%	21	34	52	22	37	61%
	Unsure/ref.	8%	7	13	5	8	7	3%
If sales tax is bad idea, ask: Would you rather... or...?		[N=235 ]						[N =412]
	Raise the sales tax from 6 cents to 7 cents	15						25
	Make even steeper cuts in state programs	63						53
	Neither [don't read]	14						14
	Both [don't read]	1						1
	Unsure/ref.	7						8