2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow did Christie get elected in New Jersey ?
He was bragging last night about the fact that NJ is an overwhelmingly (by registration) Democratic state.
Anyone ?
Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)That's how.
steve2470
(37,455 posts)soleft
(18,537 posts)rfranklin
(13,200 posts)His campaign was almost invisible and he didn't have much to brag about.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Response to steve2470 (Original post)
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swayne
(383 posts)Anyone ever heard of Scott Brown? The same thing happened in Massachusettes too....
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)got elected.
The Governorship bounces back and forth, usually depending upon how disliked the last Governor was. Like many states, Democratic registration is largely in the cities and the more suburban counties are hard Republican, so it's turnout that counts, not registration. It's also the last refuge of the county Boss, so you talk to guys like Lesniak and Norcross, who can control turnout, and don't necessarily go straight to the voters.
The state does have its hard-core wingnuts on both sides, but is overwhelmingly moderate when actually electing people, so I'm kinda wondering how Christie snuck in there. He was already well known as a loose cannon, but a highly successful (and highly partisan) US Attorney.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)but that dude totally looks like he has friends in "Waste Management."
mim89
(102 posts)Corzine was so hated. He just always had this slimeball thing about him, it eventually proved right with MFGlobal.
I wish they would've just had him drop out and run Richard Codey instead
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)Pataki in NY too. Repubs can win in blue states, usually because the Dem stunk it up last time somehow. Here in CT we had Jodi Rell for what seems like forever and she was a moderate Repub. Mittens won in Mass. Blue states go back and forth too but usually the state legislatures are much more liberal leaning.
karynnj
(59,466 posts)I was told by someone in my county organization that the intentionally negative campaign was designed to lower the vote - with the idea that the Democratic GOTV was better.
I did some phone banking and canvassing - and it was the worst experience doing this since I canvassed for McGovern in 1972 - and that was personally less bad because I believed whole heartedly in McGovern. We were calling only Democrats (and occasionally independents) and people were really unwilling to vote for Corzine -- and Christie had run as the Republican moderate in the primary and took few detailed positions in the general election. In other words, many people did not know what they were getting.
bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)I then went home and took a long hot shower.
Knowing then what I do now, that he's either the world's worst fund manager or a felon, I feel I should have voted for some third party candidate.