Posted on 06/04/2009 6:57:47 PM PDT by george76
A tough-talking former federal prosecutor will take on a disliked governor in New Jersey, a long-anticipated matchup that could test the Democratic incumbent's reaction to the recession and whether the wave of Obama's popularity can wash him to victory.
After gliding to victory in their respective party primaries Tuesday, Republican Christopher J. Christie and Gov. Jon S. Corzine are set to do battle in the only governor's race in the country to feature an incumbent Democrat.
Christie, 46, was enthusiastically backed by New Jersey's Republican establishment, receiving virtually every county GOP endorsement. Early polls show him maintaining a narrow lead over Corzine. Christie is widely viewed within the party as the only candidate with a shot at capturing the governor's office, something no Republican has done since Christie Whitman won a second term in 1997.
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Jon Corzine now joins that long list of politicians who overpromised and underdelivered
I wonder if I could vote in New Jersey even though I don’t live there.
Here in OH Strickland is attacking Kasich as a Wall Stree insider because of the time (short) that he spent with Lehman-I wonder if his campaign would mind if Christie plaguerized (ala Joe Biden) some of Strickland’s campaign materials.
Talk to someone from ACORN.
“I wonder if I could vote in New Jersy even though I don’t live there.”
Sure you can if you vote democrat!!!!!!!!!!
Kasich was the head of a two person office in Columbus Ohio. Blaming him for the collapse of Lehman is like blaming a Chevy dealer in Dayton for bankrupting GM.
Sure you can — as many times as you want.
I would have loved to see Steve Lonagan wipe up the floor with Corzine, because that would have been a clear repudiation of tax-and-spend politics. The message will be less clear when Christie beats Corzine, but it is still worth doing. Big Time...
We see this every other year. The early polling shows the GOP with a very slim lead over the Democrat and the Democrat always winds up smoking the Republican in November, even a corpse like Lousenberg.
Don’t get your hopes up. The vote fraud in NJ is rampant. Corzine doesn’t even need any actual breathing people to be re-elected, not with the Mob and the Unions in his corner.
“Jon Corzine now joins that long list of politicians who overpromised and underdelivered”
That means absolutely nothing in NJ. The state is a train wreck and Corzine’s approval rating is only a little under 40%. The clown has done little to nothing vs what he said he would do and more than a third of the people give him a favorable rating. NJ is a lost cause in terms of ethics, common sense, pride, union stangle holds or logic. I was born and lived there for most of my 60 years and fineally moved out and am one of the stats of the mass exodus of educated, producing people who have left the dysfuctional political basket case. It was a seeping cesspool...and we couldn’t be happier to be out of there.
Corzine only needs to promise to take more from those who produce and give it to those who don’t ~ a 60/40 split will still win the election.
Hopefully Christie can overcome this.
It’s worth noting that Corzine is a dumb as a rock and that may help, but of course he has got voter fraud working for him, too.
Corzine could easily pass for a homeless man. Think that could be arranged?
that’s not going to stop the scumbag cabal of strickland, hagan, ryan, boceri and cafaro from trying to blame the woes of wall street on Kasich-my only conern is that the majority of voters in OH are too stupid to realize what they’re doing (I know the majority of residents in the Mahonig valley are)
Well the Mahoning Valley always goes 2 to 1 Democrat anyways.
I like that Kasich is already mocking the Lehaman attack.
Ultimately it will be decided by the greater Columbus area and the national trend. (I think the wind will be blowing rightward)
let’s hope so-Ive been toturing ryan, brown and strcikland the last two years with letters to the editor (Youngstown Vindicator)
*Why not, everyone in Holy Name Cemetery on West Side Avenue in Jersey City does, some twice, good Democrats all.*
No Way. My great grandmother’s parents are buried there and Republicans.
Keep up the good work you are doing, deep behind enemy lines.
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