November Sun, 1991

POLITICS IN NEW JERSEY: INTEREST, KNOWLEDGE, MEDIA USE A TWENTY YEAR RETROSPECTIVE

Overall New Jerseyans, are not very informed about their state government — 3-in-10 cannot identify the political party of the Governor; about 6-in-10 cannot name the political party that controls the state legislature; 3-in-4 did not know what state offices were being contested in the past election; and 9-in-10 cannot correctly name their state senator. This is about the same level of knowledge that was noted in the first statewide poll conducted in the fall of 1971.

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November Sun, 1991

BUSH RATINGS DECLINE IN NEW JERSEY

Over the past four months there has been a 13 point drop in the number of New Jerseyans who give President George Bush a positive overall job performance rating, which is now at 56 percent. The poll shows that New Jerseyans rate George Bush quite differently on domestic and foreign affairs--only about one-in-five now gives Bush positive ratings for both his handling of the economy and social problems, however, six-in-ten continue to give him positive grades on foreign affairs.

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