That's one way to put it.
Another way to put it is this: Hillary Clinton, Smartest Woman In The World, is just barely ahead of the Republican candidate she once thought was a joke and wouldn't even deign to respond to, in one of the most reliably liberal states in the most reliably liberal region of the country.
Those statistics are not accurate. Come election day DONALD TRUMP will win every state by a landslide.
You are 100% correct. This is a “whistling past the graveyard” article is I ever did see one.
New Jersey is in what I call the “second tier” blue states after California, Massachussetts and New York;
Meaning that it would take a political earthquake for a GOP presidential candidate to win NJ; (The “first tier” states are basically hopelessly lost);
IF this is an accurate read of the NJ electorate, it spells big, big trouble for the Democrat candidate, because while NJ may well remain blue, other states that are a lot more evenly divided might not ... (or so we can hope)...