A Rutgers Poll released October 22 shows New Jersey independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett at 20% support. See this story.
A Rutgers Poll released October 22 shows New Jersey independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett at 20% support. See this story.
Daggett Breaks 20% in latest Poll. He will have a Major impact on an election.
The 20% threshold represents a psychological barrier and breaking that barrier gives Daggett a chance to win the election.
http://njelection.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/daggett-breaks-20-in-latest-poll-will-have-major-impact-on-race/
Unless he gets an endorsement from Bloomberg or someone with equivalent stature, Daggett will get fewer votes than the polls say. Candidates who aren’t expected to win, especially independents, generally see their support fall or collapse on election day-people won’t seem him as viable unless he’s tied for 2nd place or better, so his supporters might stay home. New Jersey has a lot of senior citizens, so Daggett’s inability to mount a strong GOTV effort will really come back to hurt him-seniors generally can’t/won’t get themselves to the polls.
New Jersey’s ballot design will kill him–people wont be able to find him. If he’s polling 20%, I expect to see 10%. Let’s hope he can find a way to get people to search through the entire ballot.
He has gotten the endorsement of just about every news paper in NJ. 11 news papers have rescinded their endorsement of Christie and endorsed Daggett. Still have not heard of a single NJ newspaper endorsing either Corzine or Christie.
http://njelection.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/nj-newspapers-rescind-christie-endorsement-and-endorse-daggett/