Question:
In November, there will be an election for US Senate. I know it’s early, but if the election were today would you vote for...or...? [IF “don’t know,” ASK “which way do you lean?”]

About this Poll
The most recent survey by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind was conducted by telephone from April 30 through May 6, 2012 using a randomly selected sample of 797 registered voters statewide. All voters were asked whether they had a favorable or unfavorable view of the candidates for Senate. The margin of error for a sample of 797 randomly selected respondents is +/- 3.5 percentage points. At random, voters were asked either their preference between Menendez and Kyrillos, or their preference between Menendez and “someone else.” For those 400 randomly selected respondents, the sampling error is +/- 5 percentage points. Survey results are also subject to non-sampling error. This kind of error, which cannot be measured, arises from a number of factors including, but not limited to, non-response (eligible individuals refusing to be interviewed), question wording, the order in which questions are asked, and variations among interviewers.
PublicMind interviews are conducted by Opinion America of Cedar Knolls, NJ, with professionally trained interviewers using a CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing) system. Random selection is achieved by computerized random- digit dialing. This technique gives every person with a land-line phone number (including those with unlisted numbers) an equal chance of being selected. Landline households are supplemented with a separate, randomly selected sample of cell- phone-only-households, interviewed in the same time frame. The total combined sample is mathematically weighted to match known demographics of age, race and gender.