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 | Gender | Nov 1st | Oct ‘05 |
Sep ‘05 |
Jul ‘05 |
Apr ‘05 |
Jan. ‘05 | Oct. ‘04 |
|||||
| D | I | R | men | women | ||||||||||
| Right Direction | 32% | 39 | 28 | 22 | 33 | 30 | 22 | 29 | 39 | 36 | 29 | 40 | 40 | |
| Wrong track | 53% | 42 | 58 | 69 | 56 | 50 | 62 | 59 | 49 | 51 | 59 | 45 | 48 | |
| Don't know | 16% | 19 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 12 | |
| 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 Unfavor- able |
Very Unfavor- able |
No opinion |
| Richard Codey | 19% | 81 | 33 | 32 | 6 | 5 | 24 |
| Jon Corzine | 3% | 97 | 21 | 23 | 13 | 19 | 25 |
| Previous Surveys… | |||||||
| Codey10/05* | 11% | 89% | 28 | 33 | 10 | 6 | 22 |
| Codey 9/05* | 21% | 80% | 28 | 33 | 12 | 7 | 20 |
| 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 |
| Corzine 11/4/0 | -- | 100% | 19 | 20 | 18 | 22 | 21 |
| Corzine 10/27/05 | 0% | 100% | 23 | 25 | 16 | 21 | 15 |
| Corzine 10/05 | 2% | 98% | 23 | 24 | 17 | 17 | 18 |
| 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 |
| Question: Now that Jon Corzine has been elected governor, he must leave the US Senate and appoint someone to complete his term. Let me read a list of six Democrats and ask you who you might suggest be the first and second choice to fill that US Senate seat for New Jersey: [THEN ASK: “Who would be your second choice?] | ||||||||||
| [Rotate names] | All | Party ID | Race | Gender | 2nd choice |
Com- bined men- tions |
||||
| Dem | Ind | Rep | White | Non-White | men | women | ||||
| Richard Codey | 40% | 42 | 37 | 39 | 42 | 35 | 41 | 39 | 14% | 54% |
| Don't know(vol)* | 27% | 18 | 32 | 33 | 26 | 20 | 27 | 26 | 47% | -- |
| Rob Andrews | 10% | 11 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 6% | 16% |
| Bob Menendez | 9% | 12 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 23 | 7 | 10 | 12% | 21% |
| Frank Pallone | 6% | 7 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5% | 11% |
| Rush Holt | 6% | 7 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6% | 12% |
| Nia Gill | 1% | 3 | 1 | -- | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4% | 6% |
| someone else† | 2% | -- | 2 | 3 | 2 | -- | 2 | 1 | 5% | 6% |
| a woman | 1% | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 1% | 1% |
| any minority | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1% | 1% |
* includes “any of them” and “none of them” and refusals.
† mentions included Tom Kean, Sr., Tom Kean, Jr., and Rep. Christopher Smith.
# # #
see also:
Survey
Analysis
Survey Details
