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[NJ] Garden State looking more like campaign battleground
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Sep 24, 2004 11:11am |
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| Media | Newspaper - USA Today |
| News Date | Thursday, September 23, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | USA Today article.
An excerpt..."President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, who have focused on the same battleground states all year, might soon have another place to do battle.
New Jersey, whose 15 electoral votes were presumed to be safely in Kerry's column, has suddenly emerged as closer than either side expected. A Quinnipiac University poll this week showed President Bush tied with Kerry among likely voters; other polls also have shown the race tightening. Kerry had a 10-percentage-point lead before the Republican convention.
Pollsters cite several reasons for Bush's surge:
•The war on terrorism. Nearly 700 New Jerseyans died in the Sept. 11 attacks. Just last month, security was tightened at the Newark headquarters of Prudential Financial when it appeared on a possible al-Qaeda hit list. The new poll showed Bush ahead of Kerry, 55% to 38%, on who would do a better job handling terrorism.
•The Republican convention. Residents of northern New Jersey watched local TV coverage of the convention, held across the Hudson River in New York City. Pollsters found less movement in the southern part of the state, where New Jerseyans already are being bombarded with campaign ads on Philadelphia stations.
•Local politics. The recent scandal over Gov. James McGreevey's resignation following an affair with a man and related allegations of corruption in the statehouse have produced a “natural spillover” into the presidential race, says Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., co-chairman of Kerry's campaign in the state." |
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