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Could Christie's Comments Tip the Election?
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis ^ | 10/31/2012 | Mish Shedlock

Posted on 10/31/2012 7:57:48 AM PDT by Rusty0604

Here is question of the day: Is this genuine praise or is Christie looking to run for president in four years? I suggest both.

Regardless, widespread perception that Obama is doing a good job in response to Sandy, fueled by gushing praise from Christie may be enough to tip Virginia into the Obama column, and the election right with it.

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To: Rusty0604

Treason, with extreme cowardice.


21 posted on 10/31/2012 8:13:52 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Rusty0604

I, for one, love Christie’s attitude.

He has to play footsie with the feds to get the money his state needs to recover. To do otherwise would be foolish.

But he also refused, in stark Christie terms, to play politics when circumstances demanded he lead his state during crisis. The guy has his head on straight, and we need more like him.


22 posted on 10/31/2012 8:15:18 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Rusty0604
Regardless, widespread perception that Obama is doing a good job in response to Sandy, fueled by gushing praise from Christie may be enough to tip Virginia into the Obama column.

Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see how Obama being perceived as doing a good job with disaster response in New Jersey is going to change somebodies vote in Virginia. I just can't see somebody saying, unemployment is terrible, the debt is out of control, the president blew it in Libya, I was going to vote Romney, but wow...the president sure looked good giving that disaster speech in New Jersey, I'm going to have to stay with him!

23 posted on 10/31/2012 8:16:26 AM PDT by apillar
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To: Defiant
Christie probably remembers when Governor Blanco refused to even talk to "W" during or after Katrina lest he get some credit.

Time to end that sort of thing ~ BTW, remember the parking lot filled to the brim with yellow school buses that could have taken NO peeps to safety? They showed a video of a very large parking lot filled with yellow taxis somewhere in New York.

24 posted on 10/31/2012 8:18:24 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Rusty0604

Shake my head at this non-sense. Nobody in Virginia cares about what Christie has to say, nobody.


25 posted on 10/31/2012 8:21:41 AM PDT by The Conservative Goddess
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To: Rusty0604

Christie is the Governor. He is doing what he has to, to get help for NJ. That is HIS job!


26 posted on 10/31/2012 8:23:20 AM PDT by siamesecats (God closes one door, and opens another, to protect us.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Your comments about the way a president should perform would work if we were dealing with a mature man, but Obama is a petulant child, and hold grudges. Given that Christie has not been terribly gracious recently, he probably felt he needed to massage Obama’s ego to make sure his state was treated fairly.


27 posted on 10/31/2012 8:23:30 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: InterceptPoint

I think Turncoat Christie has ruined any chances he had as a GOP candidate for President.

Oh BS. You obviously aren’t paying attention to who has been chosen in 2012. The biggest GOP disaster in history for YEARS and he was still chosen. If Christie is our nominee in 2016, FREEPERS will slobber all over him just as they are Romney.


28 posted on 10/31/2012 8:25:48 AM PDT by napscoordinator (GOP Candidate 2020 - "Bloomberg 2020 - We vote for whatever crap the GOP puts in front of us.")
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To: Rusty0604

His remarks are self serving...he and O should have a fun day today...maybe they’ll become bro-friends. Birds of a feather flock together...


29 posted on 10/31/2012 8:26:54 AM PDT by Ms Mable
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To: InterceptPoint

Ya gotta admit he is pimping himself a bit....


30 posted on 10/31/2012 8:28:46 AM PDT by Breto (The Establishment party is killing our country)
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To: The Conservative Goddess

I don’t think Christie has any influence in VA either, but my advise to Christie is to STHU, please. Thanks and acknoledgement are fine, gushing is assinine.


31 posted on 10/31/2012 8:31:49 AM PDT by Cathy
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To: oblomov

I live in Texas and have a lot of information on Christie — even before he became Gov of NJ. Too many people think he is a Rep/Consevative. He isn’t — he is definitely a Rino.


32 posted on 10/31/2012 8:31:59 AM PDT by winkadink (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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To: Rusty0604

Could Christie's Comments Tip the Election?

No.

I am certain that there is not one single voter who was waiting to hear what Christie says before they decided.
33 posted on 10/31/2012 8:31:59 AM PDT by j_k_l
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To: Rusty0604

His comments were completely innocuous to the election. He was being gracious. The storm response will not save Obamas election. Christie was being authentic, to do otherwise would have tagged him as making Sandy political. A neutral action. No prob


34 posted on 10/31/2012 8:32:25 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: Rusty0604

I don’t think Gov. Christie saying a nice thing about the President is going to matter a whit to voters in Virginia.

He was just trying to be the adult in the room.


35 posted on 10/31/2012 8:35:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Rusty0604

I do not live on the East or West coast but I keep up with Christie. He’s a Rino and will go to the White House any time he can. So glad he is supporting Obama today (sarc)


36 posted on 10/31/2012 8:35:55 AM PDT by winkadink (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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To: Rusty0604
Christie's praising O for his quick response but how does Obama respond in non-election events.

Oil Spill Commission Blasts Obama Administration Response to Spill

37 posted on 10/31/2012 8:53:33 AM PDT by Kenny (<p)
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To: Rusty0604

Oh, for Pete’s sake, what was Christie supposed to say? Obama holds the purse strings. Christie is truly grateful that Obama opened his purse and cut through some of the red tape.

You cannot even imagine the mess that Christie may be dealing with in NJ. All we have heard about is the domestic impact. I bet that there is a huge industrial impact, as well. Think of all those coal terminals and other hazardous manufacturing and shipping sites along the Jersey coast. It’s not all beaches, you know.


38 posted on 10/31/2012 9:05:21 AM PDT by Eva
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To: cuban leaf

The more I see of Motormouth Blowhard Christie, the less I like him.


39 posted on 10/31/2012 9:06:26 AM PDT by RatRipper (RE Obama: Romney just can't beat the lying, commie SOB bad enough to suit me. . . .)
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To: muawiyah

As I alluded, he may have been following that GOPe need to seem fair, but even granting that, he went too far.


40 posted on 10/31/2012 9:19:39 AM PDT by Defiant (If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
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