Christie Leads for GOP Nod in New Jersey, and Also Beats Corzine

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Chris Christie

Two polls on the New Jersey governor race today: one showing former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie with a solid lead over former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan for the GOP nomination and the other giving Christie the lead in a general election match-up with Gov. Jon Corzine.

Christie leads Lonegan 46 percent to 35 percent with 4 percent preferring some other candidate and 15 percent undecided in a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted May 27. The margin of error is 5 points. The primary is next Tuesday.

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Steve Lonegan

Cristie's favorable-to-unfavorable ratio is 70 percent to 22 percent among GOP voters compared to 62 percent to 28 percent for Lonegan. Conservative Republicans are evenly divided between the two but Christie has a wide lead among self-described moderates.

As for the general election, Christie leads Corzine 46 percent to 39 percent with 15 percent undecided in a Research 2000 poll conducted May 25-27. Lonegan edges Corzine 43 percent to 40 percent with 17 percent undecided. the margin of error is 4 points.

Corzine is seen unfavorably by 55 percent of voters and favorably by 36 percent with 9 percent having no opinion. Christie has a 38 percent to 15 percent favorable-to-unfavorable ratio but with 47 percent having no opinion. Lonegan is seen favorably by 22 percent to 13 percent with 65 percent having no opinion.

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