*sticks his tongue at Barbara Buono* You can't win! You can't win! You can't win!
Recently I reported that Chris Christie was leading Barbara Buono in a poll by 20 points.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Now it seems not that much has changed in that Christie still continues to lead Buono but by 4 points higher in percentage (24%) in this new poll out by the Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind:
http://www.northjersey.com/...
Democratic Senate candidate Cory Booker and Governor Christie, a Republican, each have commanding leads among registered New Jersey voters in a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll released today.
Booker leads Republican candidate Steve Lonegan 50 percent to 22 percent, while Christie leads in his bid for re-election against Democrat Barbara Buono, 50 percent to 26 percent.
Both challengers have not locked up support within their own parties: Lonegan has the support of 56 percent of Republican voters, while 14 percent support Booker, 4 percent “someone else,” and 23 did not know or refused to say. Buono has the support of just 47 percent of Democrats, while 29 percent preferred Christie, 6 percent “someone else,” and 18 percent did not know or refused to say.
I will point out that Chris Christie's lead in the latest poll is still evident that he's not beating Buono by as large of percentage of voters. However, keep in mind this is still 24 points and that's considered a pretty wide lead anyway compared to say 8 or 10 percentage points.
That being said, we still have a bit over two months until the November election in New Jersey's Gubernatorial Race and Barbara Buono has consistently been undeterred and tough in working to make this race more of one that it was months ago. In addition, Buono is a progressive Democrat and definitely not one of those wishy-washy New Jersey "Democrats" who say they're for bipartisan politics these days but end up supporting Chris Christie for re-election even while quite a number of his policies are against what Democrats stand for.
Also, Buono has just opened up a new office in Bloomfield and the campaign has reported they are starting to see momentum:
http://belleville.patch.com/...
Dozens of Essex County Democrats packed into Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Barbara Buono’s Bloomfield headquarters on Wednesday night to celebrate the location’s opening.
Local, county and state Democratic officials joined Buono and her running mate Milly Silva in the christening of the local campaign headquarters. State Assemblyman and Nutley resident Ralph Caputo and Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker addressed the crowd, which included Belleville Councilwoman Marie Strumolo Burke.
Buono and her supporters said her campaign was gaining momentum, noting the recent news reports saying she had closed the gap by ten points in late summer. Buono and her supporters said her campaign has seen grassroots-level success in contrast to Christie, who they characterized as ignoring struggling state residents in favor of celebrities and wealthy elites.
Seriously, do you want Chris Christie to continue being Governor of New Jersey when he's really using his re-election campaign as a platform for being president? After all, he's the same guy who said this on the NSA:
http://www.nj.com/...
"As a former prosecutor who was appointed by President George W. Bush on Sept. 10, 2001, I just want us to be really cautious because this strain of libertarianism that's going through both parties right now and making big headlines, I think, is a very dangerous thought," said Christie, who served as New Jersey's U.S. Attorney under Bush before he was elected governor in 2009.
"President Obama has done nothing to change the policies of the Bush Administration and the war on terrorism," Christie continued. "And I mean practically nothing. And you know why? Because they work. Because they work. And I think what we as a country has to decide, is do we have amnesia? Because I don't. And I remember what we felt like on September 12, 2001."
Asked if he was referring to Paul, Christie said, "You can name any number of people who are engaged in it, and he's one of them."
The governor then noted that more than 600 New Jersey families lost relatives in the 9/11 terrorist attack.
"These esoteric, intellectual debates — I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation," Christie said. "And they won't, because that's a much tougher conversation to have."
"The next attack that comes, that kills thousands of Americans as a result, people are going to be looking back on the people having this intellectual debate," the governor continued.
And he also vetoed the Medicaid expansion bill:
http://syndicatednewsservices.com/...
(Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have expanded Medicaid eligibility under the healthcare law known as Obamacare, his office said on Friday, in an apparent reversal of position for the presumed 2016 Republican presidential hopeful.
Christie’s office announced he vetoed eight bills that “would add potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to state and local budgets.” He also signed a $32.9 billion budget and three other bills, his office said in a statement.
Among the bills he vetoed was a Medicaid expansion under the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law known as Obamacare.
And he made this very insensitive statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on DOMA:
http://www.politico.com/...
He blasted the U.S. Supremes for substituting “their own judgment for the judgment of a Republican Congress and a Democratic President. In the Republican Congress in the ‘90s and Bill Clinton. I thought that Justice Kennedy’s opinion was, in many respects, incredibly insulting to those people, 340-some members of Congress who voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, and Bill Clinton.”
“He basically said that the only reason to pass that bill was to demean people. That’s heck of a thing to say about Bill Clinton and about the Republican Congress back in the ‘90s. And it’s just another example of judicial supremacy, rather than having the government run by the people we actually vote for,” said Christie, who recently appeared with Clinton at a Clinton Global Initiative conference.
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