New Jersey senate race- Bell Vs Booker
Not a single black respondent supports or even leans towards Jeff Bell
Actual Poll results show Booker with lead 46.2% - 41.2%
Weighted poll results show Booker with lead 52% - 37%
A recent CBS poll shows Cory Booker with a 46% to 32% lead on Jeff Bell. Another 5% are leaning towards both candidates. The poll surveyed 2239 likely voters. Whites respondents were split with 39% favoring Bell and 37% favoring Booker. The black respondents were unaminous. Of the 119 black respondents 104 said they supported Booker and another 8 said they were leaning towards Booker and 7 said they were not sure. ZERO said they supported Bell with not even a single black respondent saying they were leaning towards Bell. The poll takers were not able to get enough blacks to answer the polls so they weighted the 119 responses to equal 281. Hispanics and other minorities were also weighted to reflect much higher numbers than actually responded. The actual poll results were 46.2% for booker and 41.2 for Bell. If you subtract those who only said they were leaning it's 41.2% for Booker and 36.2% for Bell.
The poll shows Booker is strong among blacks and other minorities inspite of his ethical issues regarding Watershedgate and the rising crime rate in Newark during his tenure as mayor.
Actual Poll results show Booker with lead 46.2% - 41.2%
Weighted poll results show Booker with lead 52% - 37%
A recent CBS poll shows Cory Booker with a 46% to 32% lead on Jeff Bell. Another 5% are leaning towards both candidates. The poll surveyed 2239 likely voters. Whites respondents were split with 39% favoring Bell and 37% favoring Booker. The black respondents were unaminous. Of the 119 black respondents 104 said they supported Booker and another 8 said they were leaning towards Booker and 7 said they were not sure. ZERO said they supported Bell with not even a single black respondent saying they were leaning towards Bell. The poll takers were not able to get enough blacks to answer the polls so they weighted the 119 responses to equal 281. Hispanics and other minorities were also weighted to reflect much higher numbers than actually responded. The actual poll results were 46.2% for booker and 41.2 for Bell. If you subtract those who only said they were leaning it's 41.2% for Booker and 36.2% for Bell.
The poll shows Booker is strong among blacks and other minorities inspite of his ethical issues regarding Watershedgate and the rising crime rate in Newark during his tenure as mayor.
A CBS/NY Times poll has just given Cory Booker only a 50 to 43 percent lead over Jeff Bell in the New Jersey race for Senate. This was released on July 26th and was the only poll released in July. Earlier polls had Bell trailing by 13% and 20%. New Jersey leans strongly Democrat( about 14% more than the nation as a whole in the last election). Further more Booker has always been thought of as a strong candidate and seems to have achieved hero status in the mainstream media and even had a favorable documentary aired on PBS called Street Fight. Most observers would have had him pegged for a 25 to 30 point victory before the polling. Booker had been leading Lonegan in last year's special election in polling by 25 to 35 points in many polls taken 3 to 7 weeks before the election. He ended up defeating Lonegan by only 10.6%. And its possible that many Lonegan supporters were discouraged by the poor poll results Speculation that he did not have such a great record as Newark mayor and displeasure with his party's president Barack Obama is hurting Cory Booker . NJ has not elected a Republican to the senate since 1972 even though the state leaned Republican through the early 1990's.
As of June 30, Booker has about 3.5 million cash on hand and Bell has close to 0
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