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Christie still oddsmakers' favorite to win GOP nomination
Yahoo News ^ | 1/14/2014 | Dylan Stableford

Posted on 01/16/2014 2:11:16 AM PST by South40

Scandals? What scandals?

Despite facing a pair of controversies worthy of having the word "gate" attached to them, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie remains one of the odds-on favorites to win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

According to Oddschecker.com, a British website that tracks online bookmakers, Christie and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio are both 5-to-1 favorites to win the GOP nomination, according to one bookmaker. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (9 to 1) and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan (12 to 1) are less favored, while Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (33 to 1) is a popular long shot.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 2016gopprimary; braking; christie2016
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To: South40

Do these people ever travel outside of the DC Beltway?


21 posted on 01/16/2014 3:32:03 AM PST by EricT. (ARBEIT MACHT FREI- now get back to work you taxpaying peasant!)
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To: South40

Rand Paul will win it all.


22 posted on 01/16/2014 3:36:21 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Poker maybe


23 posted on 01/16/2014 3:39:15 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: alloysteel
Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless, really is a crook.

That is the understatement of the year. Again, the problem is, the media will protect her, plus, we have a different kind of voter now. I hate it so much, but we need to get used to saying president Clinton again. It sure will suck, to see that Bill will be the first man. Yuk.

24 posted on 01/16/2014 3:42:37 AM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Problem will be the same as last election,The republican establishment wants fatso,there will be at least a dozen conservatives running that will divide the vote,fatso wins the primary,The fat bitch from Arkansa wins the election,conservatives are screwed


25 posted on 01/16/2014 3:47:53 AM PST by ballplayer
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To: South40

The Left will rehab Christie’s image enough to help him get the nomination, aided by the GOPe, so Hillary will have the weakest opponent to run against. “Anything to win” is the Democrats’ one and only principle.


26 posted on 01/16/2014 3:58:57 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: South40

mega Dittos ;)

However, we’ve seen it played out before. 4 or 5 conservative guys, 1 GOPe guy in the primary.

We know who wins at that point.

We need to have a Tea Party Primary ahead of the GOP primary. So it’s 1 GOPe idiot and 1 tea party constitutionalist on the stage come GOP primary time.

Or we need to tell the GOPe to piss off and start a second party. I am not sure we can get any traction in the uniparty any longer.


27 posted on 01/16/2014 4:00:52 AM PST by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: South40
Of course he is. The American Pravda Press needs somebody EXTREMELY beatable.

IF Obama permits an election in 2016.

BIG if.

28 posted on 01/16/2014 4:20:17 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Mark17
...it took the Russians about 70 years to throw off communism. I wonder how long it will take us to throw it off as well?

That's a profound question.

I think the answer is that, we will only rid ourselves of that destructive ideology, when it finally brings the system crashing to the ground. That's what it took for the former USSR. It's what it's going to take here.

29 posted on 01/16/2014 4:23:29 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: South40

The Republicans always select and groom RINO-E candidates for Presidential contests.

Heck, they had McCrazy and Romney but made a deal with Romney to let McCrazy lose the first election and then he could lose the next election.

They groomed McCrazy 4 years before the election and Romney 8 years before the election.

Now they are grooming another faux conservative for the office 4 years out.

What losers!


30 posted on 01/16/2014 4:37:13 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: South40

Want to bet?


31 posted on 01/16/2014 4:40:23 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

“Demodummie odds makers I would surmise. They want Christie on the list so they can beat him as well. When/if the Repubs ever get their act together a pick a :winner” for their candidate, perhaps this Christie hype will all be for naught.


32 posted on 01/16/2014 4:44:43 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Windflier
I think the answer is that, we will only rid ourselves of that destructive ideology, when it finally brings the system crashing to the ground. That's what it took for the former USSR. It's what it's going to take here.

Sadly, I have to agree, and I was afraid someone would say exactly what you just said. I am afraid the whole thing must come crashing down as well. One thing that surprised me about the Soviet Union, was that I expected millions of victims to settle scores and kill many communists, who had oppressed them. I don't think it really happened that way, but we have a different kind of population. A collapse might bring on a blood bath of Biblical proportions. We shall see.

33 posted on 01/16/2014 4:47:23 AM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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To: South40

He sucks!


34 posted on 01/16/2014 4:48:05 AM PST by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: South40

I thought this clown got lap band surgery??? has he found a way to eat from the other end? Like Alice told Ralph...’you’re the biggest thing on Television’.


35 posted on 01/16/2014 4:52:55 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: South40

Christie has the perfect temperment and credentials to be a Republican politician from the east coast/new england area. Let’s face it folks, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Tom Colburn would not have a snowballs chance in hell of being elected in New Jersey. Christie makes a good Governor of New Jersey. Perhaps someday he can be a Senator from New Jersey. He agrees with us on issues probably 80% of the time. That’s better than having a socialist bedwetter who agrees with us on issues about 5% of the time. Christie has no chance of being the Republican President or Vice President nominee.


36 posted on 01/16/2014 5:00:41 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: pepsionice

What you said.


37 posted on 01/16/2014 5:08:23 AM PST by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com/)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

like my name here, Cruz/West 2016 sounds just fine !!!


38 posted on 01/16/2014 5:28:25 AM PST by Cruz_West_Paul2016
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To: South40

If Christie is our nominee then Hillary wins. Do you understand?


39 posted on 01/16/2014 5:34:37 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: ballplayer
The fat bitch from Arkansa wins the election...

Lets not be disrespectful of the former first lady here. She is not a single pound heavier than Crispie.

40 posted on 01/16/2014 5:36:01 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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