Untold, that is, by the mainstream media which still seems to think It's All About The Bridge. If you're looking for the latest summary of Christie's troubles, Elias Isquith at Salon has the latest.
But here’s the funny thing: After a series of post-Bridgegate failures, embarrassments and potential scandals (yes, there are more), Christie’s chances at winning the White House are worse than ever. Not only is he now associated with suspicions of petty corruption but, perhaps more importantly, his greatest accomplishments besides getting elected as a Republican, twice, in New Jersey — improving the state’s finances and reforming its public workers’ pension — are falling to pieces. Surveying the damage, Tom Moran, leader of the Star-Ledger’s editorial board (which endorsed Christie’s reelection in 2013), put it rather simply, saying Christie’s presidential hopes had been “finally snuffed out, once and for all.”
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Read the whole thing; Christie has more baggage than the luggage carousels at O'Hare. Anyone who still calls Christie a viable candidate for the White House is either A) living on another planet, B) comparing him to the rest of the GOP lineup, C) a delusional partisan, or D) a clueless pundit.
On the other hand, we ARE talking about a country in which George W. Bush got into the White House not once but twice, despite his long record of failure and incompetence… That's the scary thing about Christie and his chances.