Bell Leads Booker Among Independents in New Jersey

In the latest wave of the New York Times/CBS/YouGov poll, Cory Booker leads Jeff Bell 51-39.

Bell’s admirers (of which I’m one) might be tempted to conclude: Not a bad showing for Bell in a race where the conventional wisdom has been that Booker would win by at least 20 points. Bell’s run an interesting campaign, he’s raised important issues, it looks as if he’ll achieve a respectable if losing result while being massively outspent, and one can leave it at that.