Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* The back-and-forth in New Jersey’s Senate race seems to have swung in the incumbent’s favor, at least for now. A new Quinnipiac poll<\/a> shows Sen. [tag]Bob Menendez[\/tag] (D) leading state Sen. [tag]Tom Kean[\/tag], Jr. (R), 43% to 36%. The results are comparable to the results in April, when Menendez led, 40% to 34%.<\/p>\n * In Arizona, Sen. [tag]Jon Kyl[\/tag] (R) has surged ahead of businessman [tag]Jim Pederson[\/tag] (D) in the latest Rasmussen poll<\/a>, which shows Kyl ahead, 52% to 35%. The results, however, seem to contradict<\/a> several other recent polls, all of which showed Kyl’s lead narrowing considerably.<\/p>\n * In New York’s Senate race, former Yonkers Mayor [tag]John Spencer[\/tag] (R) is scheduled to launch radio ads<\/a> today that accuse the GOP establishment of failing to offer him the support he needs to beat Sen. [tag]Hillary Clinton[\/tag]. In the ad, Spencer urges voters to donate to him instead of other Republican causes, saying, “Don’t send your checks to Washington. Get behind me.”<\/p>\n * Massachusetts gubernatorial hopeful [tag]Deval Patrick[\/tag] (D) sent a video by email to thousands of supporters this week, which was interesting for two reasons. First, it was his most aggressive message yet, criticizing rival [tag]Chris Gabrieli[\/tag] for setting a $15.36 million cap on his campaign spending. Second, as the Boston Globe explained<\/a>, Patrick used an email message “to spread a detailed, letter-like message with the emotional appeal of a television commercial, but at almost no cost.”<\/p>\n