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In a race that was expected to be a blow-out a week ago, the Associated Press called the New Jersey gubernatorial race for Republican challenger Chris Christie after a 2-hour post-closing nail biter.
In a post-Presidential race year dominated by a recession, declining state tax revenues and a financial crisis linked to Corzine's former employer Goldman Sachs, it was perhaps inevitable that Corzine would face a tough road to reelection. He didn't help his case any by running a grindingly negative campaign that included insults aimed at Christie's weight (later disavowed by Corzine).
But in a state that's actually elected a Republican governor recently, an unpopular Democratic incumbent who loses to an affable Republican is obviously a reflection on the President said incumbent didn't even back in the 2008 primaries.
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So long to the schmutz. He sucked
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vote them out one by one democrat or republican its our only chance to change the mess
you can't get a permit to replace a broken stair here in NJ without a politician saying when and how
Don't live in New Jersey, but admired Corzine from afar. I hope he stays involved in Democratic politics.
This reflects on the Obama administration?
Ok. Can you imagine how many republicans in 2010 would be elected if Obama started a needless war and outed a CIA officer to get his war? And what if he expanded illegal wiretapping?
Now that would certainly hurt the democrats.
Yes bebe, it was a referendum on change. That is why Dems won 8 of the elections yesterday and Reps won two. That is why Dems increased their majority in the House by one.
Strange how Obama has a 60% approval in NJ. Why did you lie about the covert status of Plame?
For all you of you on the referendum bandwagon, I can only say that you know as little of New Jersey politics as Glenn Beck knows of string theory. We, the people of New Jersey, have a proud heritage of fielding deplorable Republican and Democratic candidates, electing the lesser of two evils, then sitting back and watching as they were unable (or unwilling) to fight the corrupt state political machines that actually run The Garden State. We voted out Corzine because he spent 4 years making promises he never came close to keeping. Nothing Obama did was going to change that -- President Obama doesn't live with our property taxes, our job losses, and our poor business climate. In fact, if anything, Corzine dragged down the President, by promising more than he knew he could deliver, which he had been doing to us for four years.
Keep your political punditry in the drawer; New Jersey switched horses because we were always going to. Sadly, we've switched from one gray mare to another, and in four years it will time to elect another poor choice as Governor, probably a Democrat.
#2 beenexposedasabigot
Your delusions are not supported by the reality of voter motivations.
But reality never stopped you from making an @ss of yourself before. Why stop now?
Disproportionate attacks? In war, the object is to kill people and break things. In order to win, one side has to kill and break a disproportionate amount things than the other side. I submit that the U.S. used a disproportionate amount of force in the Pacific against the Japs. Now what? I submit the U.S. used a disproportionate amount of force against Iraq in order to win that war. Now what? So what is your point?
Not! This was a referendum on coattails and it appears Obama's aren't quite as long as they once were. Even the libs in New Jersey couldn't stomach the direction this circus is taking the country.
This was a referendum on change, ironically the same as it was last November. Had the encumbant been Christie, he would have been gone.
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