One Poll is showing a very close race. Everything else that I have seen is showing Menendez with a safe lead. Is this poll an outlier?
It might be more of the "Blackwell effect" - people who ordinarily would vote for their parties' candidate won't do so for reasons of bigotry.
Democratic strategist Rick Thigpen said Menendez will win the election if voters go to the polls with national issues on their minds.
"This year (Kean's) candidacy is haunted by the undeniable reality that a vote for Kean is really supporting President Bush and more of the same at the national level," Thigpen said.
Republican strategist Mark Campbell said the poll "clearly points to a possible Menendez campaign train wreck."
"Tom Kean is viewed as independent and someone who can bring change to Washington, as his father did with the 9/11 Commission," Campbell said. "If Tom Kean Jr. raises the money, he wins. It's just that simple."
Sorry for the short diary but I have not seen anything similar to this on the FP so I thought it was deserving of a diary.