[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

What probably escapes most people is that NJ politics is “special”. And no matter the national political scene, Christie seems to know NJ politics, and NJ attitudes to a ‘t’.

Early on in his governorship, I read the comment that if you go into a working man’s bar in NJ, the place will be filled with guys just like Christie. He speaks their language, he knows their likes and dislikes. He eats their food and drinks their beer. Importantly, they know that and like it.

I mention this to say that he probably knows *exactly* what to do about this senate seat. How to treat it with an early election, that the typical NJsian would prefer, yet to put a popular Republican in the seat as well, giving him a huge advantage going into the special election.

So, national politics aside, which in the long run *might* get another Republican pickup in the senate, Christie is keeping the politics local, and giving the NJsians what they want.

[Ohioan]

I am no more happy with Christie's handling of the Obama photo-ops than anyone else. Yet I believe that Christie has done enough good for his State--after all his primary duty--to deserve to be given the benefit of the doubt by Conservatives in general.

Let us see how this all turns out.

William Flax

[MSF BU]

That might be true, but the “welfare man” outnumbers the “working man” now in NJ.