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Obama leads in New Jersey

Election 2008: New Jersey Presidential Election

New Jersey: Obama By 13

New Jersey voters arent likely to see a lot of the Presidential candidates between now and Election Day. In fact, Barack Obamas lead over John McCain is significant enough that Garden State voters may be even be spared the need to endure too many Presidential campaign commercials this year.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in New Jersey finds Obama attracting 55% of the vote while McCain earns just 42%. Thats a slightly bigger cushion than he enjoyed a month ago.

Both presidential candidates are viewed favorably by Garden State voters-60% have a favorable opinion of Obama while 58% say the same about McCain.

As for the running mates, 60% have a favorable opinion of Delaware Senator Joe Biden while 44% say the same about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Forty-two percent (42%) say that Obama made the right choice with Biden while an identical percentage say McCain made the right choice with Palin. A larger number (46%) said that McCain made the wrong choice while only 34% said that of Obama.

Nationally, the race between Obama and McCain remains very close in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.

Fifty percent (50%) of New Jersey voters say that the economy is the top voting issue of Election 2008. Nineteen percent (19%) say national security.

Rasmussen Markets data gives Obama an 88.7 % chance of winning New Jerseys 15 electoral votes this November. George H.W. Bush in 1988 was the last Republican presidential candidate to carry New Jersey where no Republican has won a statewide office since 1997. John Kerry carried New Jersey over President Bush -- 53% to 46% -- in 2004.

Just 26% now say that President Bush is doing a good or an excellent job while 56% rate his job performance as poor.

New Jersey remains ranked as 'Likely Democratic' in the Rasmussen Reports Balance of Power Calculator. NOTE: Factors other than the latest Rasmussen Reports poll impact the Balance of Power ratings. The current status is indicated on the table in the upper right hand corner of this article.

The survey was conducted in partnership with Fox Television Stations, Inc.

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up at polling places across New Hampshire for the nation's first

presidential primary.

Spring-like weather may be helping to boost the turnout.

John McCain is jokingly predicting a landslide victory over his

Republican rivals, after outpolling rivals in two tiny northern

hamlets, which cast the first 46 ballots of the primary season at

midnight,

On the Democratic side, Barack Obama is hoping to follow up his

victory in the Iowa caucuses with a convincing win over Hillary

Rodham Clinton. He says Americans are ready to "cast aside

cynicism."

For her part, Clinton is promising a daylong blitz to get her

supporters out. But former President Bill Clinton is trying to

lower expectations for his wife, saying the unusually short stretch

between Iowa and New Hampshire presented little chance to counter

Obama's momentum.

Late polls found Obama with a clear advantage over Clinton. John

Edwards trailed both, with Bill Richardson in back.

Surveys show a closer race on the Republican side, with McCain

and Mitt Romney in a statistical tie and Iowa winner Mike Huckabee

trailing both.

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