Friday, March 13, 2009
Is New Jersey's Governor Corzine on the ropes?
We can always dream:
There’s more bad news for Gov. Corzine in a Rasmussen poll released this afternoon.
The poll, commissioned by the television station My9, shows the Governor’s reelection prospects at their weakest so far, and comes on the heels of two recent independent polls that show Corzine trailing former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie by nine points.
Christie is 15 points ahead of Corzine in the Rasmussen poll, 49% to 34%, in a head-to-head match up, while Christie’s Republican rival, Steve Lonegan, leads Corzine by eight points, 43% to 35%.
On the one hand, a GOP victory in New Jersey in 2009 would be a nice shot in the arm heading into the 2010 mid-terms. On the other hand, 49 states have elected a Republican to statewide office since the last time New Jersey did, so Republicans need to keep their expectations and those of the national media very much in check. Of course, that would make a Republican victory all the more impressive and worth the effort. Stay tuned.
3 Comments:
By 
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Fri Mar 13, 07:53:00 PM:
Fingers crossed. Christie or Lonegan, doesn't matter. As long as it's not Corzine.
By , at
Fri Mar 13, 10:18:00 PM:
I agree that we need to keep our expectations tempered, but there are other positive signals -- Fairfax County, VA elected a Republican to its board of supervisors in a district that Obama carried by 57%, and he was outspent by the Democrat.
By , at
Sun Mar 15, 06:34:00 PM:
What could a Republican governor do? Most of the state's budget is tied up in union contracts he can't break for employees he can't fire en masse.
