It's time to send this guy into retirement. The 2008 elections will hopefully get this amnesty loving Senator out of power in NJ. I know I'm not voting for this guy in November if he runs.

Voters cool to Lautenberg Senate re-election bid

Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 08/16/07
BY ANGELA DELLI SANTI
ASSOCIATED PRESS


TRENTON — For the second time in two months, a public opinion poll shows New Jersey voters are cool to the re-election bid of the state's senior senator.

A Rutgers-Eagleton poll released Thursday shows three-fifths of voters say its time for someone else to fill Frank Lautenberg's U.S. Senate seat. In the survey, 61 percent said it's time for a change, while 21 percent said Lautenberg deserves to be elected to a fourth term.

Lautenberg, 83, has already raised $2.9 million toward his 2008 re-election bid. No Republican challengers have declared an intention to run.

The retired senator returned to the Capitol when former Senator Robert Torricelli withdrew from the race over ethics concerns in 2002.

But concerns about Lautenberg's age have surfaced.

More than 60 percent of those surveyed by Rutgers-Eagleton said Lautenberg's age would marked it difficult for him to represent New Jersey effectively in Washington.

A Quinnipiac University poll released last month found similar concerns about Lautenberg's age. In that survey, 54 percent of the 1,604 Garden State voters surveyed said Lautenberg was too old to run again, while 40 percent disagreed.

The octogenarian senator says he's in excellent health and should be judged on what he's accomplished in the Senate, not how old he is. He says he works 12-hour days, walks briskly around the Capitol and squeezes in a round of golf as his schedule allows.

The most recent survey showed 37 percent of voters surveyed approve of the job Lautenberg is doing, compared with 32 percent who disapprove.

That's higher than New Jersey's junior senator, fellow Democrat Bob Menendez, scored in the poll. Menendez's job-approval rating was 29 percent, compared with 36 percent who disapprove of the job he is doing.T

he Rutgers-Eagleton survey of 891 voters was conducted Aug. 2-7 and has a sampling error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.





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