[Zhang Fei]

My guess is one of Christie’s motives in having this special election so early was to prevent Lonegan from getting too much traction against his little buddy Booker.

I despise Christie, but at the time the election was scheduled, it wasn't clear that Christie would win in a walk. NJ has become much more liberal than it used to be.

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I despise Christie, but at the time the election was scheduled, it wasn't clear that Christie would win in a walk.

Yes it was. He's consistently been up my 20-30 points over Buono since April.

If anything the race has tightened up slightly, but he still leads by more than 20 points.

It's a blue state, but Buono was part of Corzine's financial cabal. People remember that.