NJ-7: Dem race still wide open, per Shah internal poll from February
With just over two months to go until the New Jersey primaries, the four-way Democratic primary in the 7th congressional district is still wide open, according to an internal poll from one of the contenders that was in the field last month.
The poll of 403 likely Democratic primary voters in the competitive district, commissioned by Tina Shah and conducted by GQR in late February, found that a whopping 64% of voters are undecided for now. Ten percent of voters opt for Rebecca Bennett, 8% for Shah, 5% for Megan O’Rourke, 4% for Brian Varela, and 3% for Michael Roth; O’Rourke ended her campaign after the poll left the field.
For now, before any of the candidates have started investing heavily in TV advertising or other forms of direct voter outreach, none of the candidates are very well known to the district’s voters; all of them had name recognition numbers between 22% and 33%.
But the poll argues that of the four remaining contenders, it’s Shah who has the most room to grow once voters do start to tune in. After being read positive biographies for each candidate, Shah jumps into the lead with 32%, followed by Bennett with 17%, Varela with 10%, O’Rourke with 7%, and Roth with 6%. (The biographies are not public, but the New Jersey Globe reviewed them for fairness and accuracy.)
https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/nj-7-dem-race-still-wide-open-per-shah-internal-poll-from-february/