U.S. Senate candidate Anne Estabrook now has the backing of six GOP County ChairmenTwo more Republican County Chairmen have joined Anne Evans Estabrook's U.S. Senate Exploratory Committee, along with three state legislators and a former GOP State Chairman. Hunterdon County GOP Chairman Henry Kuhl and Salem County GOP Chairman Paul Reed join GOP county leaders from Monmouth, Union, Camden and Gloucester counties as likely Estabrook for Senate supporters.

Assemblymen Peter Biondi and Sean Kean, Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck, and former GOP State Chairman Virginia Littell are also backing Estabrook. They join State Senators Joe Kyrillos and Diane Allen, and Assemblywoman Amy Handlin.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 83, is expected to seek re-election to a fifth term in the U.S. Senate next year: Getty Images PhotoA Rutgers-Eagleton poll released today confirmed what another survey said last month: New Jersey voters think Sen. Frank Lautenberg is too old to effectively serve another term.

Sixty-one percent of respondents said that Lautenberg's age will hurt his ability to represent New Jersey during another term, which he would start at the age 84 and finish at 90. Thirty-one percent of those surveyed said that the senator’s age would not be an impediment.

A Quinnipiac University poll from last month also showed that voters were concerned about Lautenberg’s age. In that poll, respondents said Lautenberg was too old by a margin of 54-40.

The Rutgers-Eagleton poll also said that only 24 percent of registered voters think that Lautenberg deserves another term, while 61 said it’s “time for a change.”

They say he’s too good for this business, a throw-back to the disinterested days of the Founding Fathers when gentlemen sat among gentlemen and civilly decided which gentleman would be gentleman-in-chief until some gentleman’s hurt feelings led to the inevitable duel, and the inevitable dead gentleman.

Now Leonard Lance, the State Senate Minority Leader, finds himself not in a ten paces, turn and shoot contest, but an all-out fight, and his team is not only outnumbered but on a field of battle that favors the opposition. If Jersey is Gettysburg, Lance is Robert E. Lee stuck with the low ground.