Posted on 10/01/2013 5:48:47 AM PDT by cotton1706
Is New Jersey’s Steve Lonegan the next Scott Brown?
A one-time sure-GOP-loser turned winner in a blue state special Senate election?
Made a winner over “sure-thing” Democrat and Newark Mayor Cory Booker by popular revulsion with ObamaCare? And a truly riveting personal story that is turning heads all over the state of New Jersey? (Here is Lonegan telling the story of his blindness that has captured so much attention.)
The question is suddenly being asked as a 35-point Booker lead in a September 11 Rutgers-Eagleton poll eroded by 9 points in just 12 days to a 26-point Booker lead in a September 23 Stockton College poll and has now been eaten away to an astonishing 12-point gap in this Quinnipiac poll released on September 24.
The headline in New Jersey.com?
Poll shows Booker vs. Lonegan race for U.S. Senate is tighter than expected
The story opens with this new information on the special election to replace the late Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg:
A new poll on the U.S. Senate race suggests Cory Booker’s expected blowout over Steve Lonegan may not be in the bag.
What’s going on here? How does an “expected blowout” for a liberal shining star in an overwhelmingly blue state suddenly and so dramatically become “tighter than expected”?
Some New Jersey analysts are suggesting that Lonegan’s charges that Booker’s record on crime in Newark isn’t all Booker makes it out to be, that Booker is a “show-horse” celebrity candidate.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Show Horse celebrity? NOOOOOOO!
I think one black guy with few accomplishments and a habit of serial lying is quite enough for one legislative body a decade. The idea is that Booker would then become the next BHO and be the bullet proof nominee and POTUS because any criticism of a black man is RAAAACISSSST!
I wasn’t aware Lonegan was blind.
Booker is off in California fundraising, and this gives Lonegan an opportunity he should take.
Hit the pavement! Run a Santorum-esque shoe leather campaign. Go down to Newark and hold a town hall to talk about what a failure Booker is.
Yes, he has an amazing story.
A win or even a close loss will scare the hell out of the democrats! I would love to see Lonegan win and then Cuccinelli in Virginia. And I’d love to see conservatives stay home for Christie in New Jersey. Let him get the votes of the democrats and moderates that he loves so much.
If we won both of those races, the narrative about the shutdown badly affection Republicans will be blown out of the water.
Right. And what’s more, liberal Jeff Chiesa would be replaced by conservative Steve Lonegan and Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer would have one less reliable vote for the debt ceiling, amnesty, etc.
precisely. I’m sending a donation to Lonegan today.
You can't compromise on principle, especially if the opposition has the ability and desire to anihiate you.
I hope this guy wins....it would be as huge as Cruz's 21 hours.
Obamacare is killing Dems in NJ. Many blue collar Reagan Dems are pissed off as Obamacare details and reality come to light. Many may not be ready to vote GOP but will sit out of the election in 2014 and maybe 2016. The other group is Soccer Mom white suburbanites who vote Dem. Working hour cut backs, being dumped onto the exchanges and learning its high premiums or high deductibles for low premiums is giving them sticker shock. GOP need to keep hammering on the waivers given to Dem Congress and staff and favorite Dem groups. NJ is winnable. Stay away from the theme that corporate America and Wall Street can be trusted and do not need regulations. The financial meltdown and sleazy bailout politics killed that GOP theme.
Hilarious to watch all of these morons who voted Obama, now act surprised and pissed that their health insurance and taxes are going up.
NJ is a hopeless mess. I hope I'm wrong with this race, but the disappointment that is NJ has been going on for decades.
It is not just the "Lautenberg" seat that he needed to get the RNC's Senatorial Committee to put in the win column but two others as well IMHO.
The "Menendez" seat in NJ, but they don't have the fortitude to press him on what looks like a major sex scandal, and....
The third escapes me @ the Moment, but it may have been the MA seat / Scott Brown and some of what the Legislature did their, or was it WVA / Manchin seat?
Is Lonegan making Obamacare the key issue in his campaign?
If he beats Booker in NJ, it will be a seismic shift in Washington.
“Hilarious to watch all of these morons who voted Obama, now act surprised and pissed that their health insurance and taxes are going up.”
Why wouldn’ they be surprised all they know is what the liberal media tells them. We made a real mistake by lowering the taxes on the owners of the MSM and the wealthy GOP country clubbers who should be owners as well but aren’t.
I don't see how this helps Reid one bit, having a shutdown and a major race on-going at the same time....
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