This is the last thing a candidate wants to hear just days before the election:

"I'm ready to write-in Bozo the Clown for all I'm concerned about [it]," said Trejen Strickland, who is a social worker for Essex County. 

A week before the election, it was hard to find someone in the very blue city of Newark who was excited to vote on Tuesday, even for the Democratic candidate. 

"I'm super numb from the last few years," said Sherica Tedder, who works for the city's Division of Family Assistance and Benefits. After this last election, she says, "who knows what to expect."

But other voters confessed they felt uninformed. They didn't know enough about the candidates to cast a ballot.

Newark is New Jersey's largest city and it's in a county that solidly voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Gubernatorial contender Phil Murphy, a Democrat, has led Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno in every poll by double digits since June's primary. But those polls might not reflect the actual vote if turnout is lower than expected.

"My prediction is that it'll be record low turnout for a governor's race in New Jersey," said Patrick Murray, who runs the Monmouth University Polling Institute.

"If it goes really low, and there's a real skew in who turns out — like the urban vote doesn't come out at all and these rural Trump voters start coming out in big numbers —  then we could possibly see a surprise," Murray said.

The Murphy campaign declined to discuss their voter strategies in the run-up to election day. But Democratic organizers say they've seen a lot of support for Murphy as they send volunteers to call voters and knock on doors across the state. "We've made close to 60,000 calls by our volunteers, for Phil and other Dems," said Marcia Marley of Blue Wave New Jersey.

Murphy may face one other problem, though — the forecast for Tuesday calls for rain.

For more information on the candidates, see WNYC's Voter Guide.