Democratic nominee for New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill and Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli are statistically tied nearly a week before the election, a new poll shows. "The last two public polls showed the New Jersey gubernatorial race as a dead heat, but they come from organizations whose results tend to tilt Republican, what election watchers call a house effect," D. Stephen Voss, political science professor at the University of Kentucky, told Newsweek via email on Monday, in part. The