Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Chris Christie's Year in Public Opinion

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Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ It seems fitting that Chris Christie’s first year as governor wraps up with a snowstorm. That’s how it started...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

In the End, 12 Is Not Much Different Than 13

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With the loss of a House seat, members of New Jersey's delegation will each represent 56,000 more people than they do now. Have our Con...
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Christie and Obama: Still a Study in Contrasts

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Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ The national attention on New Jersey’s governor has taken a new turn – now portraying him as the anti-Obama. I...
Monday, November 29, 2010

The Case for NJN

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The clock is ticking for NJN. New Jersey Network. The New Jersey Channel. JerseyVision (yes, it was once called that). Forty years of broad...
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Media Lessons from 2010 Elections

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Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ What did we learn from this election? Two things: - Internal campaign polls that make their way into the publi...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Who Do You Trust?

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Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ Our latest Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Press Media Poll asked New Jerseyans how much they trust the...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Bullying Leader or Leading Bully?

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Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ Much has been made of New Jersey Governor Christ Christie’s initial harangue over the state’s loss of Race to t...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Adventures in Campaign Message Polling, part 2

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Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ I recently wrote that a publicly released campaign poll memo was from a message testing survey, with the resul...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

Is Obama in Need of Some Tom Foolery?

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Cross-posted at New Jersey Newsroom One of the hardest things for a president to do is to stay in touch with the concerns of everyday folk. ...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

State Pension Reality Check

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Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ . Numbers matter. Poll results, budget deficits, health statistics. Attach a number to any issue and it becom...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Adventures in Campaign Message Polling, part 1

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Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ . The political blogosphere recently took note of a poll in New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional district purporting ...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Homebuyer Credit or Taxpayer Gift?

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So what’s the deal with the New Jersey homebuyer tax credit ? This program would give homebuyers in the state a tax credit worth up to $15,...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Are Nate Silver’s Pollster Ratings “Done Right”

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This originally appeared as a guest column on Pollster.com . The motto of Nate Silver’s website, www.fiverthirtyeight.com , is “Politics Don...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

New Jersey Property Taxes Far and Away the No. 1 Pet Peeve

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This column originally appeared as an Op-Ed in the Gannett New Jersey newspapers on June 13, including the Asbury Park Press, Courier News, ...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

New Jersey's Primary: What's it Mean for November?

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So what does the outcome of New Jersey’s Congressional primaries mean? The Tea Party movement certainly made a statement, but there is a lo...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

More on New Jersey’s Image

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Two days after the Gannett New Jersey newspapers ran a feature on New Jersey’s image (which included my analysis of state and national publi...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Do Other Americans like New Jersey for the Right Reasons? ‎

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This column originally appeared as an Op-Ed in the Gannett New Jersey newspapers on April 25, including the Asbury Park Press, Courier News,...