Fairleigh Dickinson (9/28-10/5, likely voters, no trend lines):
Jon Corzine (D-inc): 38
Chris Christie (R): 37
Chris Daggett (I): 17
Undecided: 16
(MoE: ±4%)
FDU didn’t include Chris Daggett in their previous month’s poll, so we can’t draw a clean trend line from these numbers. However, in a direct head-to-head, Corzine leads Christie by 44-43, up from 47-42 for Christie last month. Incredibly, this is the first time we’ve seen Corzine in the lead since January. There’s more, though.
Rasmussen Reports (10/5, likely voters, 9/21 in parens):
Jon Corzine (D-inc): 44 (41)
Chris Christie (R): 47 (48)
Chris Daggett (I): 6 (6)
Undecided: 3 (5)
(MoE: ±4%)
If there’s been a common thread over the past few weeks, it’s been that Christie’s numbers are beginning to come back down to earth, but that Corzine wasn’t actually gaining any support in most of the public polling. Now we have two polls suggesting that Corzine is ticking upward, and here’s how that looks in graphical form:
Getting better, but we’ll have more polling results in the coming days that will either corroborate the trend or point to something else. Hang on to your butts.