Poll: PRES. OBAMA RE-ELECT HITS 50% IN NJ

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PRES. OBAMA RE-ELECT HITS 50% IN NJ
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President Barack Obama maintains a majority positive job rating in New Jersey, and has improved his prospects for picking up New Jersey’s 14 electoral votes in November, according to the latest Monmouth University/NJ Press Media Poll. Senator Bob Menendez continues to have less stellar ratings than the president, with a large chunk of voters sitting on the fence regarding his re-election.

Currently, Pres. Obama earns a 56% approve to 38% disapprove job rating among all Garden State residents. Among registered voters, his rating stands at 54% approve to 41% disapprove, a slight improvement on his 51% positive rating in February. More importantly, Pres. Obama now has 50% of New Jersey voters saying he deserves to be re-elected, up from 47% in February and 46% in October. Another 40% say it is time to have someone else in the Oval Office, which is down from 45% in February and 47% in October.

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http://www.monmouth.edu/assets/0/84/159/2147483694/85346b73-2597-46ad-b51b-c49b57d976e0.pdf

The state numbers show the President gaining ground in contrast to the national polling.

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1. of course, to be frank, if he loses NJ that means he won't be re-elected. So good news

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2. Rutgers-Eagleton poll, March 21-27

RUTGERS-EAGLETON POLL: Obama Maintains Support in NJ; Continues to Lead Romney

A PDF with questions and tables is available here.

Our most recent poll also gets a read on the 2012 election in New Jersey. The overall story is not a lot of change from our early February poll. Support for President Obama among New Jersey voters holds steady. A clear majority – 58 percent – has a favorable impression of the president, while one third of voters continue to remain unfavorable. His job performance grade also remain virtually the same, with half of all voters awarding Obama an A or B and a little more than one quarter giving a grade of D or F. As was true in February, 22 percent give him a C.

Obama’s positive ratings coincide with a continuing double digit lead over the top Republican presidential candidates in general election match-ups. The president leads former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 58 to 31 percent, a 27-point difference that has held relatively steady. Obama leads former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich 64 to 23 percent and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum 62 to 27 percent.

In general, Romney earns the highest favorability rating from New Jersey voters among all three Republican candidates, but half of voters still have an unfavorable impression of him. Only 28 percent have a favorable impression toward Romney, 20 percent toward Santorum, and a meager 12 percent toward Gingrich.

None of the Republican candidates score very highly at all among New Jersey voters, which is reflected in Obama’s wide leads against each of them in these match-ups. The president appears to be maintaining his solid lead over any Republican in New Jersey.

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http://eagletonpollblog.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/obama-maintains-support-in-nj-continues-to-lead-romney/