Being behind on my reading does make it easier to report follow-up observations. For example, last week’s gubernatorial election in New Jersey, not a special election but a regularly scheduled election, elicited this statement from Steve Benen:
* In the final round of polling in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race, Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill narrowly leads former Republican Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli in the latest Suffolk University poll (46%-42%), Quinnipiac University poll (51%-43%) and Fox News poll (52%-45%).
A real nail-biter, eh? “Narrowly leads” hardly sounds like it. Drum roll, please:
Source: Ballotpedia.
A 13 point victory is not a nail biter. I have no special links to pollsters, so I don’t know the internal chatter, but they have to be discussing these results with some intensity, especially Suffolk University.
