The Daily Background

A few assorted polls I wanted to highly briefly.

_In New Jersey, the only state where a Demoratic Senator is really in trouble, incumbent Bob Menendez is leading by 6 points (48%-42%) over Republican challenger Tom Kean Jr in the latest poll, conducted by Research 2000.

According to the new Newsweek/Princeton Survey Reserach Associated International poll (what a mouthful), 40% of the population opposes any type of expanded, more-equal rights for gay Americans. Meanwhile, 26% think gay Americans should have the right to have civil unions, and 24% are in favor of full equal marriage rights. That adds up to 50%; a plurality that favors greater rights.

57% and 44% respectively of Americans think that the House and Senate races in their area will be close contests this year (this impression, despite the fact that only a handful of races are considered truly competative).

A quarter of Americans who use the internet to find out about candidates get that information from blogs. That amounts to about 9 or 10 percent of the full US population.

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