Andrews (AP photo)
It didn’t matter to the party faithful that U.S. Rep. Robert E. Andrews first said he wouldn’t run for his House seat and then he annouced he would run again. And, it doesn’t matter to voters either, according to a poll released today by the William J. Hughes Center at Stockton College.
More than 75 percent of those polled said they didn’t care that Andrews broke his promise. Only 18 percent said it made them less likely to vote for him.
Andrews shocked the political community last April when he jumped into the Democratic U.S. Senate primary against U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg. Because he was running for Senate, Andrews could not simultaneously appear on the ballot for the House seat he was first elected to in 1990.
He and Democrats put his wife, Camille Spinello Andrews on the June 3 primary ballot as a place holder candidate. The plan was that Democrats would select a candidate in a nominating convention.
But after Andrews lost the primary to Lautenberg, Democrats waited through the summer for Andrews to make a decision. Shortly after Labor Day, he said he wanted to run for his old seat because he’d had a “change of heart.” In a quickly arranged party convention, Democrats nominated him to run for the seat again.
The poll confirms what pundits have been saying all along -- in one of the country's safest seats, the Democrat is heavily favored to win.
Among likely voters, Andrews is ahead of Republican Dale Glading, a prison minister from Barrington by 73 percent to 16 percent.
Stockton used Zogby International to conduct the poll of 400 likely voters living in the district which covers much of Camden County and includes parts of Gloucester and Burlington counties. The poll was conducted between Sept. 18 and Sept. 20 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
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