Posted on 09/14/2017 7:04:35 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
NEWARK — The Democratic candidate for New Jersey governor opened his post-Labor Day blitz accusing his Republican opponent of abdicating her moral leadership. The Republican challenger retorted with accusations of race baiting. They were the type of hyperbolic accusations often thrown around in a nail-biting, nasty political campaign with such vitriolic attacks feeding a frenetic news cycle hungry for daily conflict and a riled electorate packing town hall meetings and rallies. This is not that kind of race. Despite an election that will mark the end of the tumultuous tenure of Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, and the fact that it is only one of two statewide elections this year, the campaign has failed to whet the appetite of voters. Philip D. Murphy, the Democrat, is leading the Republican, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, by 25 percentage points in a poll by Quinnipiac University released this week.
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A rare occasion when the slimes is speaking the truth.
I am technically from New Jersey. I’m not paying attention. I wish the place would just sort of go away.
Why should they?
Pick Democrat in a D jersey
or
Democrat in an R jersey
Joe Piscopo should’ve run.
“””””Joe Piscopo should’ve run.”””””
Wish he had!
Wait a minute... isn’t “everybody” in NJ “nobody” to the NYTimes?
Well, other things are going on in the world, which take their attention away from New Jersey’s off-off year election.
I’m sure that New Jersey and Virginia schedule their state elections in odd numbered years as they do, so as to not have those elections affected by other elections happening. But perhaps in doing so, the elections get lost in the shuffle of voter indifference.
And face it, especially for some Democrat leaning groups, there are big numbers of people who only vote in presidential election years, who only think about politics and voting when the big job is on the ballot.
——Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, by 25 percentage points in a poll by Quinnipiac University released this week.——
Gee, nobody is paying attention. ?
I wonder why ?
A 25 point lead in polls may be a clue ?
New York has always seemed to think New Jersey is a mirror for New York to show off in front of.
Other than that, New Jersey is nobody.
Unless you have a joke to make about them.
True, especially presidential elections.
The voter indifference you describe in these off-year elections is the only reason Republicans can get elected governor in this very “blue” state.
Yes, sadly it’s a not a “race”, as Guadagno has to run with a 400 pound weight around her neck.
Sigh,counting the days until I am out of this shitty state. I suffocate with taxes,idiotic laws, and forget about the 2nd Amendment.There are so many important issues that need to be addressed but the fix is in and the NYC and Trenton overlords will anoint a-hole Murphy to office. Nobody cares about the race and I find that pathetic. The GOP really sucks. They have thrown in the towel in the race for Mayor of New York and Governor of New Jersey. That’s how much they hate Trump.
I’m leaving too, after 58 years. NJ is a flushing toilet.
This is not a competitive election; assured Democrat.
What race for governor?.....
I’d be very surprised if it ends up with that wide a victory for the Corslime Clone Murphy. Nobody has won by over 25% since Republican Tom Kean humiliated Peter Shapiro by a 70-29% margin in 1985 (notable in that Kean received a majority of the Black vote in that contest). Crispy Crème did win by 22% in 2013, but the Dems didn’t seriously contest it by running Cory Booker. Guadagno is at least a first-tier candidate, but then (ostensibly) so was Congressman Jim Courter in 1989, who was running to succeed the popular Kean, but was destroyed by fellow Congressman Flim Flam Florio in a 61-37% margin (in no small part due to his jettisoning his career-long pro-life stance in a cynical ploy to appeal to the left).
Of course, if Murphy ends up as bad as Florio, McPervert and Corslime (and he will), that should bode well for NJ Republicans... just not in 2017.
Not that my fellow NJ Republicans are any bargain. The party has been progressive-infested for forty years or more, and it's getting worse.
True. :-|
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