19 Quotes by Clay Richards

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

Sen. Menendez has a 6-point lead in his race for re-election mainly because New Jersey is a Democratic state more fed up with the Bush administration and the war in Iraq than it is with high taxes and the budget crisis at home.

Most people decided that the government, including the Legislature ... should just stay out of the matter.

Nelson's numbers are getting stronger, but about a third of the voters still say they don't know enough about him to form an opinion.

Newly appointed Sen. Robert Menendez leads Tom Kean by the narrowest of margins only because there are more Democrats than Republicans in New Jersey.

His polls have definitely weakened because, one, he had signed the legislative pay-raise bill last year, which was highly unpopular; and, two, he failed to deliver on his promise to lower property taxes.

I wouldn't be surprised if as many as 25 percent of New Jersey voters said they are supporting Kean because of his father's record, or because they like his father.

I think these numbers should give Congressman Mark Foley reason to consider making a run.

We're all out there in August beating the bushes, and the voters are still at the beach.