At the start of the election year, to have the governor still be up (by) double digits after all of the hoopla about Swann, I think is significant. But of course, the race is just beginning, so we have a long way to go.
Clay Richards
We're all out there in August beating the bushes, and the voters are still at the beach.
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It's a marvelously subtle attack.
For a governor who signed the despised legislative pay raise and saw his plan to use gambling money to lower property taxes go down in flames, Ed Rendell ought to be called Teflon Ed.
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There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.
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The bottom line is that even when things are equal in New Jersey, the Democrats win.
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Nelson's numbers are getting stronger, but about a third of the voters still say they don't know enough about him to form an opinion.
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Most people decided that the government, including the Legislature.. Should just stay out of the matter.
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His polls have definitely weakened because, one, he had signed the legislative pay-raise bill last year, which was highly unpopular; and, two, he failed to deliver on his promise to lower property taxes.
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I'm sure that was among the factors that changed the margin in this.
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