Clay Richards Quotes (14 Quotes)

If voters are in a Florio anti-tax mood, his approval rating will suffer. If he's able to convince them that tax increases are necessary to maintain state services they want, then his approval rating, while not going up sharply, should not be too badly damaged.

I think these numbers should give Congressman Mark Foley reason to consider making a run.

Nelson's numbers are getting stronger, but about a third of the voters still say they don't know enough about him to form an opinion.

While a majority of the voters view both candidates as being honest and trustworthy, the number who did not jumped eight points for Mr. Forrester and four for the senator.

If there were a third-party candidate on the ballot who is pro-choice, that candidate could draw heavily from Casey backers among liberal Democrats, enough to make it a close race.

The controversy from 2000 is going to hurt her as a candidate.

Sen. Menendez has a 6-point lead in his race for re-election mainly because New Jersey is a Democratic state more fed up with the Bush administration and the war in Iraq than it is with high taxes and the budget crisis at home.

It's a marvelously subtle attack.

For a governor who signed the despised legislative pay raise and saw his plan to use gambling money to lower property taxes go down in flames, Ed Rendell ought to be called Teflon Ed.

Sen. Menendez holds a narrow lead in this race only because there are more Democrats than Republicans in New Jersey.

Most people decided that the government, including the Legislature ... should just stay out of the matter.

While voters think the legislative pay raise is excessive and want it repealed, it does not appear that lawmakers will suffer greatly at the polls for making themselves the second-best paid Legislature in the country.

With Casey holding double-digit leads, this is an indication that his stand against abortion is not having a major impact in either the Democratic primary or the general election.

A significant number of Casey supporters still do not know that Casey is opposed to abortion. There are a significant number of pro-choice voters whose entire opinion swings on that one issue, and, unlike other single-issue voters, they will use their vote on just that one issue, even if it hurts the candidate they are otherwise philosophically attuned with.