Ron PaulBacked Libertarian Senate Candidate Murray Sabrin Not Getting Polled

-Source-Reason- Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is not the only member of the Paul family to endorse a Libertarian Party candidate for the U.S. Senate this year. His father Ron Paula longtime Republican congressman and three-time presidential candidate (twice with the GOP once with the L.P.)last month endorsed his 2008 New Jersey campaign spokesman Murray Sabrin in a race against scandal-plagued incumbent Democrat Robert Menendez and moderate Republican pharmaceuticals executive Bob Hugin. I am pleased to endorse my good friend of 35 years Murray Sabrin for United States Senate the elder Paul said in his endorsement. Murrays dedication to and knowledge of the principles of liberty will make him an effective advocate for freeing the people of New Jerseyand the Nationfrom excessive taxes debt and inflation as well as ending the ongoing violations of our right to free speech property and privacy. Murray will also be an outspoken Senator for peaceful relations with other nations and work to ensure that our immigration policies adhere to common sense solutions like his proposal to have immigrants obtain sponsors so they can assimilate and become financially independent. Ron Paul has not made a habit out of endorsing Libertariansdeclining for example to endorse presidential nominee Gary Johnson in 2016 or 2012 and backing the Constitution Partys Chuck Baldwin in 2008. Making the endorsement even more significant that Sabrin is an unusually strong candidate running against an unusually weak incumbent. A longtime economist and educator who is strongly anti-war and pro-life Sabrin owns the seventh-highest percentage of any Libertarian Party gubernatorial campaign in the partys 47-year history earning 4.7 percent of New Jerseys vote in 1997. Switching to the Republican Party he finished fourth with 19.4 percent in a tight four-way primary for Senate in 2014. (The winner Jeff Bell got 29.4 percent then lost to incumbent Cory Booker by 14 percentage points in the general.) And yet like similarly strong L.P. Senate candidates in the toss-up states of Indiana and Nevada Sabrin is generally not being polled appearing only in a Gravis Marketing survey that his campaign paid for. There he pulled a respectable 7 percent to Menendezs 40 and Hugins 30. The race is widely considered to be a lean D but as columnist George Will has pointed out support for the shabby Menendez has been weak in this strongly Democratic state. Read more