THE BIG 5-0

New Jersey is Bush Country: Survey of Likely Voters Shows President?s Strength in Ballot Match-ups (Politics NJ, MAY 13, 2003)

A statewide survey of 500 registered, likely voters conducted on May 6-7, 2003 shows that President Bush would defeat Joe Lieberman, John Kerry or Richard Gephardt if the Presidential election were being held today.?? The margin or error for a survey of 500 likely voters is +/- 4.36%.

?The poll, conducted by National Research Inc., asked voters the straight ?head to head? ballot matchups.? The questions themselves, as well as the choices within each question, were rotated to avoid order bias.

President Bush defeats Joe Lieberman 51%-33%.? The President defeats John Kerry 51%-32%, and Bush beats Richard Gephardt 49%-33%.

?These are amazing numbers considering the fact that New Jersey went for Gore in 2000,? said Adam Geller, the president of National Research Inc.? ?This time around, voters seem to be saying that they are quite comfortable with President Bush as the Commander in Chief.? In fact, it is really only one third of likely voters -- a vast majority of them Democrats -- who would support the Democratic candidate."

It's well worth the Party's time dumping some resources--including the President's time--into NJ, a state they were competitive in until the 90s. Posted by Orrin Judd at May 13, 2003 1:58 PM