MONDAY POLL RESULTS. As of 12:30 PM today in its seven group poll-of-polls average, the Real Clear Politics web site showed Chris Christie leading with a 1.2 margin over New Jersey’s incumbent governor, Jon Corzine. Friday afternoon, that same poll average had both men in a statistical dead heat.
Stockton/Zogby has Corzine ahead by 1, and Monmouth/Gannett has him up by 2. The other five polls show Christie leading with a spread of from 1 to 3 points. (Quinnipiac, which previously had Corzine ahead by 3 on Friday, now has Christie up by 2. That’s a not-so-insignificant 5 point reversal for Corzine in just three days.)
The polling is still active and the results could swing either way.
HELP FROM WASHINGTON. Yesterday, President Barack Obama and Jon Corzine barnstormed two of New Jersey’s largest cities, Newark and Camden, pinpointing them both in a last-minute push to motivate voters in those burgs to become the tipping point for the incumbent’s reelection.
You’d think that the President would have larger responsibilities to attend to: Matters such as the problem of a U.S. troop buildup in Afghanistan and the corrupt administration of that country’s president, Hamid Karzai. Or another issue such as helping to reconcile the incomprehensible 2000-page health-care bill in the U.S. House of Representatives with the Senate version. Or perhaps another minor point such as the condition of the U.S. economy.
But no, it was time to fuel Air Force One and head up to an annoying distraction in New Jersey. Why? The Obama administration’s real concern is that this state, like Virginia, has two critical governorships up for grabs and, if they both go Republican, the loss will be viewed as a specific indictment of Obama’s policies – that’s the playbook.
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