Several things mitigate against Christie sweeping the nation: (1) He has to run the gantlet of the Republican nominating process, which pushes people so far to the right they have trouble extricating themselves from it in the general; and (2) This loudmouth bully may not be as appealing to independents and Democrats outside of the Jersey Shore, in states like, say, California and New York--the states that you really can't win without.

New Jersey is not the nation. Christie is not that talented. And if he should manage to win the presidency by some miracle, it will only have been because he runs on Democratic policies and ideas.

In the meantime, I'm not going to twist my knickers in a knot.

The things that make him popular as a governor in the northeast are the things that will assure that he will not survive the republican primaries.

Jeb Bush is beginning to posture, he's the one to be afraid of - after the mid-terms.

him and the allegedly Democratic Party of NJ that virtually endorsed him. They reelected a bigoted hyper conservative Republican who is a laughing stock in most of the country. They might as well become Republicans if that's how they vote.

Maybe next time they could get a candidate that would at least get all the Dem votes. I'm tired of state's Democratic parties not picking candidates to run against idiots. I'm in Florida which is known for putting up weak ass Dems against horrible repukes.

They then gave that candidate no money or logistical support and endorsed Christie.

So Buono decided to run, even though she had no party support.

Here's the thing: without giving her the support she needed, they also wound up ceding, I'm sure, some local races that maybe could have swung the other way had the top of the ticket been well-financed. The Dems not only gave Christie a coronation, they also screwed themselves where it counts: in local races where all kinds of things get decided. You know, where the rubber meets the road. The national bigwigs don't seem to understand how politics is played.

vote for that gas bag? Uncivilized style marbled into despicable policy.

Had the Senate race been on the ballot, rather than that race having been held weeks ago, it would have been much, much closer. I have little doubt that many of the people who came out to vote for Deval Patrick a few weeks ago stayed home yesterday.

1,323,000 people voted in Booker election. 2,056,000 voted in Christie election. No evidence anyone stayed home.

Yeah sure. These people clearly have no idea what it means to be liberal.

Fuck Christie.

drones and social slashing and so on
? the right guy was in the WH

were Essex & Hudson (basically Newark and the Oranges).

Everyone likes Tom Hanks.

It's not dead...it's pining for the fjords.

Anyway, while the Tealiban wing of the GOP seems to be reeling right now, any sort of post-midterm resurgence on their part would effectively doom Christie's candidacy in the primaries. This is a distinct possibility, I'd say. While I think the GOP's traditional power centers (that is, the corporate sockpuppets) will eventually restore their near-complete control, if the GOP get clobbered in 2014 (pretty darn likely), the far right fringe will see a temporary bump. Enough to prevent Christie from being the nominee, I suspect...

- Dick Tuck