MORE INFORMATION, A2

Meet reporter
Nicquel Terry today.
MEET
THE
PRESS
Asbury Park Press APP.COM $1.00
Asbury Park Press - Daily barcode
),
/sbury Park Press daily

Asbury Park Press - Sunday barcode
),
/sbury Park Press 3unday

Home News Tribune - Daily barcode
),
Home News Jribune daily

Home News Tribune - Sunday barcode
),
Home News Jribune 3unday

Ocean County Observer - barcode
)|
0cean 0ounty 0bserver daily

Ocean County Observer Sunday - barcode
),
0cean 0ounty 0bserver 3unday

Beach Haven Times - barcode
),

Beach Haven Jimes

The Beacon - barcode
),
Jhe Beacon

The Lacey Beacon - barcode
)|

Jhe Lacey Beacon

The Tuckerton Beacon - barcode
),
Jhe Juckerton Beacon

FRIDAY 10.10.14
VOLUME 135
NUMBER 243
SINCE 1879
ADVICE JERSEY ALIVE
CLASSIFIED D4
COMICS JERSEY ALIVE
LOCAL A3
MOVIES JERSEY ALIVE
OBITUARIES A15
OPINION A18
SPORTS C1
WEATHER C10
YOUR MONEY A14
Republican U.S. Senate challenger Jeff Bell said he
is behind in the polls by double digits because single
mothers are wed to the social benefits that Demo-
crats hand out.
Bell said his 20-plus percentage point deficit among
women in public opinion polls isnt due to his socially
conservative views, such as opposition to abortion
rights, but rather the result of a demographic boost in
the number of unmarried women.
Ive done a lot of thinking about this and looked at a
lot of different polls, I think it has more to do with the
rise in single women, Bell told the Asbury Park Press.
Single mothers particularly are automatically Demo-
cratic because of the benefits. They need benefits to
survive, and so that kind of weds them to the Democrat-
ic Party.
But single women who have never married and
dont have children are also that way, he continued. If
you take married women, they arent that different
from married men. So its really a problem with the de-
cline in marriage rates. The Democrats do benefit from
that.
Bell is seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Cory
Booker in the November election. Booker, who won a
special election last year, is seeking a full, six-year
term.
Bells recent comments are misogynistic, despica-
ble, said Booker campaign spokeswoman Julie Rogin-
sky.
Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray said
Bell expressed similar sentiments in his book, The
Bell: Single
moms wedded
to Democrats,
social benefits
Challenger to Booker links lagging
poll numbers to unmarried women
MICHAEL SYMONS @MICHAELSYMONS_
TOM SPADER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Jeff Bell, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in New Jersey,
talks with the Asbury Park Press editorial board on Monday.
Single mothers particularly are
automatically Democratic because of
the benefits. They need benefits to
survive, and so that kind of weds them
to the Democratic Party.
JEFF BELL, REPUBLICAN U.S. SENATE CHALLENGER
See BELL, Page A7
H
A
N
D
E
D
A
B
I
G

B
I
L
L
The company will
refund more than
$368,000 to its New
Jersey customers to
settle cramming
accusations.
YOUR MONEY, A8
RUN
AWAY
WITH
JOAN
JETT
Legends
latest album
anchored by
anthem of
recovery
following
2012s
superstorm
Sandy.
JERSEY ALIVE
101 summonses
issued on Freehold
Townships Kozloski
Road, where four
people have lost their
lives recently.
STORY, A3
SCRUBBING
IN JACKSON
Mayors orders seek to protect the
township from Ebola and enterovirus.
STORY, A11
USA TODAY ONE SUICIDE IN U.S. EVERY 13 MINUTES PAGE 1B