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Survey of 500 Likely Voters August 7, 2005
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August 9, 2005--Thirty-four percent (34%) of New Jersey voters consider property taxes to be the most important issue in the 2005 race for Governor. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that the corruption issue is seen as the top priority by 18% of voters. Economic growth (15%) and health care issues (13%) also rate near the top of voter concerns. Republican Doug Forrester has a huge lead (61%-25%) among those who consider corruption the top issue in the state. However, Democrat John Corzine leads among those who consider property taxes, economic growth, and health care as the most important issue. Forty-five percent (45%) of those who say property taxes are the number one issue prefer Corzine. Thirty-nine percent (39%) prefer Forrester. Corzine leads 62% to 25% among those who consider economic growth the top priority. Overall, Corzine leads Forrester by eight percentage points. [More Below]
Forty-seven percent (47%) of Likely Voters say that New Jersey politics is more corrupt than in most other states. Six percent (6%) say it is less corrupt while 41% believe the level of corruption is typical of most other states. Twenty-five percent (25%) say corruption will decrease if Forrester is elected. Eleven percent (11%) say it will increase. Voters are evenly divided on the subject if Corzine wins--20% think that will lead to more corruption and 19% to less. Regardless of who wins, a majority of voters believe the level of corruption will be unchanged. Forced to make a choice between reducing property taxes and cleaning up corruption, voters were evenly divided. 48% named cleaning up corruption as more important while 44% said reducing property taxes was a higher priority. Voters who name taxes as more important favor Corzine 51% to 34%. Those who think reducing corruption is key are closely divided, favoring Forrester by just two percentage points, 43% to 41%. As for a hot button social issue, 58% of New Jersey voters favor the traditional definition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Twenty-nine percent (29%) disagree. Just 4% of voters name this as their top issue. The telephone survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports on August 7, 2005. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Forty percent (40%) of survey respondents were Democrats, 30% Republican. President Bush has a 44% Job Approval rating in New Jersey, slightly below his national Approval Ratings. Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. Rasmussen Reports was the nation's most accurate polling firm during the Presidential election and the only one to project both Bush and Kerry's vote total within half a percentage point of the actual outcome. During Election 2004, RasmussenReports.com was also the top-ranked public opinion research site on the web. We had twice as many visitors as our nearest competitor and nearly as many as all competitors combined. Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade. To keep up with our latest releases, be sure to visit the Rasmussen Reports Home Page.
This survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports August 7, 2005. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. |
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