Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: 7/21
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
Chris Christie...
Christie Beats Corzine in New Jersey
Filed under: Governors
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 the...
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
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 find...
NJ-Gov: Christie Rocked Yet Again By Potential Scandal
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 New...
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 for...
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 football...
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 in...
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 occasionally...
Independent May Be the Wild Card in NJ Governor’s Race
Filed under: Governors
Mark Blumenthal of Pollster.com reports:
After a flurry of new polls this week in New Jersey which are generally showing a much closer contest than in September or earlier in the summer, but there is a huge wild card in this race and it's all about independent Chris Daggett.
The best news for...
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