2007 - Center for Public Interest Polling
Clean Election Districts are Different
Compared to voters statewide, voters in the experimental Clean Elections districts were more likely to say they had heard or read about Clean Elections legislation and had heard or read about the legislative races in their district. According to a study undertaken jointly by Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute of Politics and Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Poll … Read more …
Report: Public Attitudes Toward the Clean Elections Initiative
This report summarizes the results of a series of voter surveys conducted in New Jersey during the fall 2007 campaign. The surveys were designed to measure public attitudes about campaign finance reform in general and the Clean Elections legislation in particular. It also compares the 2007 survey results to findings from a similar series conducted … Read more …
GAY MARRIAGE COMES OUT IN NEW JERSEY, YET OPINION IS UNCHANGED
As the state marks the one-year anniversary of a New Jersey Supreme Court decision ordering the State Legislature to extend the legal rights of married couples to gay and lesbian couples, the public remains evenly divided over whether those rights should include marriage.
CRANKY ELECTORATE STILL GIVES DEMOCRATS THE EDGE
Voters are growing increasingly negative about New Jersey as a place to live, and perceptions of the extent of corruption among public officials is at an all-time high in the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. And yet, likely voters still prefer Democrats over Republicans by margins of 10 to 12 percentage points when asked which party they … Read more …
VOTERS COOL TO ANOTHER TERM FOR LAUTENBERG
With the November 2008 election still 15 months away, three-fifths of New Jersey voters say it is time for someone else to fill Frank Lautenberg’s seat in the U.S. Senate.
CORZINE FACES UPHILL CLIMB TO SELL TOLL ROAD IDEA
If Gov. Jon Corzine proposes to lease the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway as a way of raising money to pay state debt, he will face opposition from across the political spectrum, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll.