March Sun, 2000

WHITMAN AND THE DMV: GOVERNOR GETS BLAME; JOB RATING DIPS A BIT

The roll out of the state’s new, tougher car inspection system has had a fender-bender with Governor Whitman’s job performance rating. Whitman receives a fair amount of the blame for the inspection difficulties and gets low marks for her handling of the DMV situation. Yet Whitman remains generally popular in New Jersey and her overall job performance rating runs well ahead of evaluations of how she has handled the DMV matter.

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March Wed, 2000

THE 2000 SENATE RACE: STILL NOTHING HAPPENING

Last September five of the six major party candidates running for the U.S. Senate held by retiring Frank Lautenberg were virtually unknown. Former Gov. Jim Florio, the only widely known candidate but a contentious figure, ran just slightly ahead of the Republicans he was matched up against. Florio’s opponent Jon Corzine was a blip on the radar screen—known to only about 1 in 7 Democrats. And just one-quarter of the Republicans interviewed expressed an opinion about any of their candidates.

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