A year and a half before he faces re-election, half of New Jersey voters still have no opinion of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) Twenty-two percent of Garden State voters have not heard of Menendez, while another 28 percent do not have an opinion of him, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll released this morning. Of the...
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U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez speaks at an event in North Bergen in this October 2010 file photo.A year and a half before he faces re-election, half of New Jersey voters still have no opinion of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)
Twenty-two percent of Garden State voters have not heard of Menendez, while another 28 percent do not have an opinion of him, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll released this morning.
Of the other half who do have an opinion of Menendez, 30 percent view him favorably and 20 percent unfavorably.
In a head-to-head matchup with the largely unknown John Crowley — the Princeton biotech executive who many think will seek to run for senate as a Republican — Menendez gets 45 percent to Crowley’s 26 percent. Only 16 percent of New Jersey voters, however, have heard of Crowley, whose compelling life story was made into the movie “Extraordinary Measures” last year.
Even Frank Lautenberg, in office since 1982 with a two-year break between 2001 and 2003, is unknown to many New Jersey voters. Thirty-nine percent have either not heard of him or have no opinion. Thirty-seven percent view him favorably to 24 percent unfavorably.
Fairleigh Dickinson surveyed 804 registered voters from May 16 through May 22. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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