Steve Lonegan polled well with pale, sweaty white guys
New polling suggests Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonegan has a virtual stranglehold on male voters who are pale, sweat excessively and make people a little creeped out.
The Quinnipiac University poll found that while Lonegan trails GOP frontrunner Chris Christie by a wide margin among likely voters, the tables are turned when looking only at men with pasty skin, undiagnosed hyperhidrosis and a slight leer.
“The results are simply stunning,” poll director Don Schwartzman said. “Some of it can likely be explained by his positions on immigration, gun proliferation and flat taxes. But there is more going on here and part of it, I think, is this demographic, for some unknown reason, feels a strong connection to Lonegan.”
The survey asked questions of 2,456 registered New Jersey voters, 723 of whom were identified as “sweaty, pale white guy.” Of the overall likely voters, 4 percent said they planned to vote for Lonegan. But among the sub-demographic, 97 percent said they supported the former mayor of Bogota.
The poll had a 3 percent margin of error.
One of the poll’s respondents, Roy Hatton, said he’s been outside his first-floor North Plainfield apartment only twice since Steve Forbes ran unsuccessfully for president on the flat tax issue in 1996. He answered his door with a towel draped around his neck and his shirt drenched. (When asked if he had just gotten out of the shower, Hatton said, “No. Why?”)
“Steve Lonegan speaks to me in a way the other candidates don’t. Mostly at night, when I’m alone. Well, I’m always alone, but when the TV is off,” Hatton said. “I think if enough of us band together with our absentee ballots, we can get him into the general election.”
Lonegan’s campaign declined to discuss the poll results, but pointed to a section of his website that reads, “He understands your problems, because he shares your problems. He’s for us, because he’s one of us.”
