October Tue, 2002
LAUTENBERG SUBSTITUTION REVIVES DEMOCRATS’ CHANCES EVEN WHILE ENERGIZING REPUBLICANS SENATE RACE A TOSS-UP AMONG LIKELY VOTERS
The Democrats are indeed in much better shape to win the Senate election with former Senator Frank Lautenberg having replaced current Senator Bob Torricelli on the ticket. A Star- Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers poll concluded Sunday night shows Lautenberg leading Republican Douglas Forrester by a margin of 6 percentage points among potential voters, 46 to 40, with the remainder undecided.
September Sun, 2002
GOVERNOR McGREEVEY FALL REPORT CARD:MEETS EXPECTATIONS BUT COULD DO BETTER
While James E. McGreevey’s job approval rating has slipped somewhat in the lastfew months, the news from the latest Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers Poll is not all bad forNew Jersey’s chief executive. While fewer than half of the state’s residents give theirgovernor positive marks on his job performance, most acknowledge that the state isfacing serious budgetary problems and few residents hold McGreevey responsible forincreases in local property taxes. On the whole, most residents say he is doing as well asthey expected.
June Sun, 2002
McGREEVEY’S BUDGET WOES: Residents Want Service Cuts, But Not In Social Programs
Governor James McGreevey gets positive job marks overall from Garden State residents, but views of his handling of the state’s budget problems have worsened over the past three months as the projected budget deficit has grown. Currently residents are divided over McGreevey’s efforts to deal with the budget – 35 percent approve of the job he is doing on the budget while 35 percent disapprove.
March Fri, 2002
Five Governors in One Week May Have Been Too Many
New Jerseyans appear open to the idea of having an elected lieutenant governor who would take over in the governor’s absence, according to the Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers Poll. A slim majority of residents say that they think the system works fine the way it is, but when the numbers are broken down by whether residents paid attention to the quick change of governors in January, a different picture emerges.