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The New York Times Upshot / Siena College New Jersey 07 Poll:
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Republican Incumbent Lance 45% Democrat Malinowski 44%
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Voters Prefer Democrats Control House 49-45%; Give President Trump Negative 42-53% Job Approval Rating
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Favorability Ratings: Malinowski, 32-20 Percent; Lance, 36-33 Percent
Loudonville, NY. Incumbent Republican Congressman Leonard Lance holds a thin one-point lead, 45-44 percent over Democratic challenger Tom Malinowski according to a new New York Times Upshot/Siena College poll of likely New Jersey 7th Congressional District voters. Malinowski has a 32-20 percent favorability rating, compared to a 36-33 percent favorability rating for Lance.
Likely voters in this northwestern New Jersey district prefer Democrats rather than Republicans control the House of Representatives next year, 49-45 percent. Voters give President Trump an 11-point negative job approval rating with 42 percent approving the job he is doing and 53 percent disapproving and by 51-36 percent they oppose the tariffs on steel and aluminum imposed by President Trump this year.
This New York Times Upshot/Siena College Poll is part of an ongoing project polling pivotal Congressional races across the country. The data is published live on https://www.nytimes.com/section/upshot. This press release highlights the key findings and provides access in the cross-tabulations to the entire survey as well as how demographic groups answered each question.
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This New York Times Upshot/Siena College NJ 07 survey was conducted September 17-21, 2018 by telephone calls in English to 504 NJ 07 voters. This poll has a margin of error of +/- 4.8 percentage points. Calls were made to a stratified weighted sample of voters from the L-2 Voter list via both land and cell phones. A likely-to-vote probability was computed for each respondent based on their stated likelihood to vote as well as by virtue of the imputation of a turnout probability score based on past voting behavior. This combined probability to vote score was applied as a weight along with a weight that considered party, age, race/ethnicity, education, region within the district and gender. Polling support for this project provided by Institute for Policy and Opinion Research at Roanoke College, Reconnaissance Market Research, M. Davis & Company, The Public Opinion Research Lab at the University of North Florida and The Survey Research Center at the University of Waterloo. The Siena College Research Institute, directed by Donald Levy, Ph.D., conducts political, economic, social and cultural research primarily in NYS. SCRI, an independent, non-partisan research institute, subscribes to the American Association of Public Opinion Research Code of Professional Ethics and Practices. For more information, please call Steven Greenberg at 518-469-9858 or Don Levy at 518-783-2901. Survey cross-tabulations and frequencies can be found at: www.Siena.edu/SCRI/SNY.
