FDU PublicMind - September 25, 2002 Survey

Table 1

Question: If the election for New Jersey's U.S. Senator were held right now, and you had to make a choice, which of the following two candidates would you vote for?
	All	Dem	Ind	Rep	African- Amer- ican	His- pan- ic	Male	Female
Bob Torricelli	38%	63%	34%	9%	48%	48%	37%	38%
Bob Torricelli—lean	5%	4%	9%	3%	8%	5%	4%	6%
Doug Forrester	42%	18%	37%	76%	24%	26%	47%	38%
Doug Forrester—lean	5%	5%	2%	6%	3%	17%	3%	6%
Undecided	9%	9%	16%	4%	15%	4%	8%	11%
Some other candidate	1%	1%	2%	1%	2%	0%	2%	1%

Table 2

Question: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: "A critical reason to vote for Bob Torricelli is to prevent Trent Lott and other very conservative Republicans from becoming leaders of the US Senate."
	All	Democrats	Independents	Republicans
Agree	37%	55%	37%	16%
Disagree	47%	29%	44%	70%
Don't know/unsure	16%	16%	19%	15%

Table 3

Question: Do you think that Senator Bob Torricelli has done a good enough job as U.S. Senator to deserve reelection, or would you rather see a new person in that job?
	All	Democrats	Independents	Republicans
Re-elect	29%	43%	28%	13%
New person	59%	45%	57%	77%
Don't know	12%	12%	16%	10%

Table 4

Question: Have you heard of … Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of …? Would that be very or somewhat favorable/unfavorable?
		All	Democrats	Independents	Republicans
Bob Torricelli
	Very or somewhat favorable	38%	49%	39%	25%
	Very or somewhat unfavorable	48%	37%	47%	62%
	Haven't heard of	14%	14%	14%	13%

Doug Forrester
	Very or somewhat favorable	35%	20%	37%	54%
	Very or somewhat unfavorable	18%	28%	17%	6%
	Haven't heard of	47%	52%	46%	40%

Table 5

Question (Forrester supporters only): There are different reasons people give for voting for a candidate. In this election, would you say you are voting more for Doug Forrester or against Bob Torricelli?
For Forrester	34%
Against Torricelli	55%
Both	6%
Neither	5%

Table 6

Question (Torricelli supporters only): There are different reasons people give for voting for a candidate. In this election, would you say you are voting more for Bob Torricelli or against Doug Forrester?
For Torricelli	59%
Against Forrester	25%
Both	4%
Neither	11%

Contacts: Bruce Larson, survey analyst: 973-443-8727.
Rick Thigpen, academic associate, 609-394-0888.
Steve Salmore, research professor of political science: 973-292-3633.
Peter Woolley, coordinator: 973-443-8725

Radio actuality line: (201) 692-2846.

For more information, please call (201) 692-7032.

All

Dem

Ind

Rep

African- Amer- ican

His- pan- ic

Male

Female

Bob Torricelli

Bob Torricelli—lean

Doug Forrester

Some other candidate

All

Democrats

Republicans

Agree

Disagree

Don't know/unsure

Question: Do you think that Senator Bob Torricelli has done a good enough job as U.S. Senator to deserve reelection, or would you rather see a new person in that job?

All

Democrats

Republicans

Re-elect

New person

Don't know

Question: Have you heard of … Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of …? Would that be very or somewhat favorable/unfavorable?

All

Democrats

Republicans

Bob Torricelli

Very or somewhat favorable

Very or somewhat unfavorable

Haven't heard of

Doug Forrester

Very or somewhat favorable

Very or somewhat unfavorable

Haven't heard of

Question (Forrester supporters only): There are different reasons people give for voting for a candidate. In this election, would you say you are voting more for Doug Forrester or against Bob Torricelli?

For Forrester

Against Torricelli

Both

Neither

For Torricelli

Against Forrester

Both

Neither

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Amer-
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His-
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