Posted on 09/19/2007 8:50:46 AM PDT by presidio9
You can add this to the growing list of “conservatives can’t win elections anymore” articles which seek to ensure a choice between two liberals in 2008.
im not an expert, but i can tell you right now that no republican can win nj. the state is too far gone. it wont be long before its massachusetts south.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
1984. New Jersey. Ronald Reagan 60%. Walter Mondale 40%. The state’s changed but not that much. A conservative can still take every state in the Union.
“Experts” huh?
The most abused word in the English language -
Are these the global warming, poverty, Iraq war, Islam “experts” too?
New Jersey reminds me of that old Groucho Marx joke “I would never join a club that would have me as a member.” The voters of New Jersey elected Bob Torricelli and Jim McGreevey. Winning the New Jersey vote is a little bit better than getting elected Mayor of Washington DC.
Ping
If I were the national GOP I'd write this state off completely when it comes to statewide elections.
Guess we’ll have to add NJ to the other 49 states that Willard will never win.
This isn’t an article about “conservatives” winning anything. It’s about Romney.
An expert is a drip under pressure.
how are the airport bathrooms in Jersey??
Romney, nominally somewhat more conservative than Rudy, can't win the state, but Rudy supposedly can. The state that's been a lock for Dems in the last 4 elections. What does that say about where Rudy is on the political spectrum, and thus about what Republican primary voters should or will likely think about him?
Fred is the solution to the Republicans' problems. Bush won twice without NJ, and so can Fred. I question whether Rudy can, not knowing that he dropped out of the Senate race with Hillary while far behind her (allegedly for health reasons, but I don't really believe that).
NJ suffers from a sort of battered woman syndrome. It moves from one phoney Democrat to the next, gets the same battering and disappointment, but moves on to another and thinks this one is really going to be different.
I lived most of my 60 years in NJ and am glad to be out of it. Its a lost cause.
Almost the same as Idaho. Except in NJ, the politician soliciting sex there is a Democrat (and probably the Governor).
He was also going through a messy tabloid divorce at the time. He would have given Hillary a run for her money otherwise.
That being said, in an election between him and Joe Lieberman, I honestly wouldn't know what to do.
Just wondering what you thought about this topic. But maybe you should nap instead.
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