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New Jersey: Polls Have Now Closed

November 3, 2009
By Jed Lewison
New Jersey: Polls Have Now Closed

UPDATE: As actual precincts come in, the numbers, not shockingly, are tightening up.

Election Results--New Jersey Governor--11/3/09--3% Reporting

Chris Christie (R) 36,958 (49%)
Gov. Jon Corzine (D) 32,268 (43%)
Chris Daggett (I) 5478 (7%)

Election Results--New Jersey Governor--11/3/09--0% Reporting

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Christie Beats Corzine in New Jersey

November 3, 2009
By Bruce Drake
Christie Beats Corzine in New Jersey

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Christie (left), Corzine (center), and Daggett (right) voting in New Jersey.
Republican Chris Christie won the New Jersey governor's race, overcoming the huge edge incumbent Jon Corzine had in campaign funds...
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NJ-Gov: More Evidence Christie Abused His Office As U.S. Attorney

October 31, 2009
By Jed Lewison
NJ-Gov: More Evidence Christie Abused His Office As U.S. Attorney

For most of the Fall, the Corzine campaign has been selling voters, with some degree of success, on the notion that the carefully constructed legend of Chris Christie as honorable fighter of corruption, largely based on his days as a U.S. Attorney, was a sick joke.

Newly uncovered phone records, obtained by...
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NJ-Gov: Christie Closing With Curious Tactics

October 30, 2009
By Jed Lewison
NJ-Gov: Christie Closing With Curious Tactics

With a weekend and a Monday to go until Election Day, in a race that polls show is as tight as it can be, New Jersey's Republican gubernatorial nominee Chris Christie is picking a really bad time to lose his marbles a little bit.

In what could best be described as a...
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NJ-Gov: A Coin Flip To The Bitter End

October 29, 2009
By Jed Lewison
NJ-Gov: A Coin Flip To The Bitter End

Research 2000 for Daily Kos, 10/26-28, Likely Voters, MoE 4% (9/28-30 in parentheses):

Chris Christie (R) 42 (46)
Jon Corzine (D) 41 (42)
Chris Daggett (I) 14 (7)

Anyone looking for certainty regarding the outcome of next week's gubernatorial election in New Jersey will not...
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NJ-Gov: Christie Rocked Yet Again By Potential Scandal

October 26, 2009
By Jed Lewison
NJ-Gov: Christie Rocked Yet Again By Potential Scandal

Drip, drip, drip....

Days before announcing his resignation as a federal prosecutor, Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie agreed to hire the son of his friend and mentor, Herbert J. Stern, as an assistant U.S. attorney.

The move sparked public criticism from Democrats, who accused Christie of using his post as...
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NJ-Gov: The Video Chris Christie Doesn’t Want Anyone to See

October 19, 2009
By Jed Lewison
NJ-Gov: The Video Chris Christie Doesn’t Want Anyone to See

It is hard to know if this will qualify as a "Macaca Moment" in the New Jersey gubernatorial campaign, but the Corzine campaign squad posted a YouTube last night that Republican rival Chris Christie probably wishes had stayed under wraps for another few weeks:

There is a lot of peril...
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NJ-Gov: On Footballs, Peanuts Characters, and Garden State Politics

October 18, 2009
By Jed Lewison
NJ-Gov: On Footballs, Peanuts Characters, and Garden State Politics

As the polls begin to turn in the direction of the Democrats in the state of New Jersey this month, Garden State Republicans could be forgiven for feeling a sense of familiar dread as the countdown to Election Day drones onward.

The New Jersey GOP was going to kick the...
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NJ-Gov: NYT Poll Has Corzine Up 3; Christie Travel Woes Worsen

October 17, 2009
By Jed Lewison
NJ-Gov: NYT Poll Has Corzine Up 3; Christie Travel Woes Worsen

New Jersey Governor, polled by The New York Times, 10/9/09-10/14/09, Likely Voters, MoE +/- 4-5%

Jon Corzine (D) 40
Chris Christie (R) 37
Chris Daggett (I) 14

After a week in which Republican challenger Chris Christie has watched poll after poll showing a dwindling lead...
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NJ-Gov: Christie Lived Lush Life On Government Dime, According to Report

October 14, 2009
By Jed Lewison
NJ-Gov: Christie Lived Lush Life On Government Dime, According to Report

When you have built a large part of your personal campaign narrative around being a rough, tough fighter of government corruption (as New Jersey's GOP gubernatorial nominee Chris Christie has done), stories like this are bound to sting just a little bit extra:

Newly released travel records show that Chris Christie...
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