A small piece of Gov. Corzine's sweeping poll detailed by The Star-Ledger, and linked to here on the Grapevine, could prove politicially huge.
Among the many findings, the poll found that almost half of the New Jersey electorate is unaware of anything Corzine has accomplished as governor. That's not good news for a man up for re-election in a year's time.
Internally, there are elements of the Corzine administration that are acutely aware of this weakness and worried about it. Whether their fears were stoked by the poll, or the survey reflects what their own observations, I'm not sure. But it will be interesting to see how Corzine responds, and if he starts hammering home his own accomplishments once this Election Day passes and eyes turn to 2009.
If Corzine were to try to highlight his own achievements, we'll be likely to hear about reducing state spending (this year), limiting borrowing, revamping school funding, paying for new school construction and putting more money toward public education. Recently he called for far-reaching ethics reforms and put a spotlight on his Wall Street experience with a broad plan for dealing with the economic crisis.
His opponents are likely to hit Corzine for raising the sales tax, borrowing billions of dollars to pay for school construction, raising spending overall during his time in office and coming too late, they say, to ethics reforms.
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