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Menendez 49%
Hugin 32%

Source (https://poll.qu.edu/new-jersey/release-detail?ReleaseID=2527)

Thank you Roberts Court for making corruption legal.

Newjerseyites like 'em a bit on the corrupt side.

And nobody was surprised.

Gross. But at least Menendez helps me feel less like I'm living in the most corrupt state in the union.

This, or they just don't care. We'll see by September. That is if the Menendez-Hugin race is even interesting by then.

Unsurprising. Hugin is a weak candidate.

Doug Forrester should come back and run, he'd beat a corrupt Sen. Menendez.

I wonder where he is. Forrester faded from NJ politics like Jim Courter and the others.

Looks like we are once again reaching cruising altitude boys, a couple more like this and we can move this thing back from Likely D to Solid D.

I don't know... Jeff Chisea still could make this reasonably close, but he's probably the only candidate who could do so (and he's probably not interested, or he would've jumped in already).

You’re telling me no there was no Democrat in NJ that could’ve challenged Menendez?

The NJ dem bench is shockingly thin. There's a reason Murphy was able to buy the governor's nomination so easily.

Still safe D, especially in this national environment. But I'd prefer another Dem candidate.

Yea, Safe D for now.

Menendez will remain in this seat until he retires or dies.

NJ GOP really needs to rebuild.

Hugin would be good as a congressman if Lance retires than Senator.

Hugin should be RNC chair...he can fundraise well, but not a good communicator of politics.

Not true. NJ Dems have a great bench of people to run for stuff.

Like? I just moved to Florida 3 months ago. I lived in NJ for 20 years. Outside of a few local officials like Shvonda Sumpter or old men like Rothman or Holt, there aren't many strong candidates that could even think about challenging a sitting senator.

Not sitting senator strong, but there are some good ones. All the congressmen from the D's except Coleman and Pascrell, and they are good too, just too old, Jeff Van Drew, Sheila Oliver, Sweeney, Greenwald, etc.

Oliver, Sweeney, and Greenwald are all terrible by virtue of being involved in Trenton leadership and all that entails. Van Drew is clean enough to take on Menendez but intolerably conservative for statewide Democrats (which is the same reason he's seen as acceptably aloof from corrupt leadership).

As for Congress, Pallone is the only one credible statewide. Pascrell and Coleman are too old, Sires is a ghost who shares Menendez's base and might lose his own primary, Payne is an empty suit, and Norcross is Norcross.

New Jersey Democrats are in a no-win situation – to become well-known, candidates have to accept some level of corruption. Meanwhile, Republicans can keep producing Leonard Lances and Jay Webbers from the Trenton minority.

Steve Fulop or John Wisniewski might be credible enough to mount a primary challenge, but it's too late now.

New Poll: New Jersey Senator by Quinnipiac University on 2018-03-12 (https://uselectionatlas.org/POLLS/SENATE/2018/polls.php?action=indpoll&id=34120180312015)

Summary: D: 49%, R: 32%, U: 17%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details (https://poll.qu.edu/new-jersey/release-detail?ReleaseID=2527)