The lastest Fairleigh Dickinson University/Public Mind poll for the NJ Senate race still has it close, with democrat Bob Menendez leading republican Tom Kean Jr by 3% (43% to 40%). [link].

I still don’t think anyone is really paying attention to this race. The poll was of 675 randomly selected registered NJ voters. FDU asked them this question: “Later this year there will be an election for the US Senator representing New Jersey…. Do you happen to know the names of the two major party candidates?” Two thirds of these registered voters, 64% couldn’t name either candidate.

Haven’t the Star-Ledger, the Bergen Record and Asbury Park Press written at least one article about Kean and Menendez sometime this past year?? This also proves something I’ve said over the years, that the NJ voting public is perhaps the most apathetic ill-informed electorate in America.

This also highlights something many political observers have said since the rise of the internet blogger. Political bloggers do not represent the voting public. NJ political bloggers have been debating the Kean-Menendez race for months, yet this poll shows only 22% of democrats and 21% of republican voters in this poll can name both candidates. Very interesting.

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