2017: NJ Gubernatorial/legislative elections

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I really want Shavonda Sumter as governor personally, but Phil Murphy looks like he'd be hard to take down in a primary. Phil Murphy seems like Jon Corzine 2.0.

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I really want Shavonda Sumter as governor personally, but Phil Murphy looks like he'd be hard to take down in a primary. Phil Murphy seems like Jon Corzine 2.0.

Sumter is Murphy's leading choice for Lt. Governor, apparently.

Probably why she hasn't announced. Figures we'd be stuck with another wall street executive.

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oh lord

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Does any resident New Jersey residents know the views of Joe Piscopo?

He was a democrat up untill 2014. He left the party because he thought the radical wing was taking over. Make of that what you will.

Edit:

Here you go. Piscopo wrote an Op-Ed about why he was leaving the party.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/14/piscopo-confessions-of-a-disillusioned-democrat/

Its not a long read.

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I think this race is gonna heat up quite a bit, fwiw. Wouldn't discount the possibility of a Sanders endorsement at all.

A Sander's endorsement wouldn't mean much in NJ. One just has to look at the NJ Dem Primary to see why.

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However, if in 2019, a Gov. Murphy is unpopular, the GOP could pick up one of the chambers for the first time since 2001.

Why? What about 2019 and NJ suggests that will happen? I'd say until verifiable trends or other evidence suggest so, I doubt NJ Democrats are losing any chambers in the Trump era.

N.J. is one of the highest taxed states in the nation. If Phil Murphy raises taxes in his first two years as N.J. governor, voters are going to be fed up. New Jersey has had a tax problem for decades now, and it has helped Republicans in the past (Christie Todd Whitman in '93, Chris Christie in '09). Anything can happen, and the N.J. GOP could come back sooner than later.

N.J voters are always fed up, and they always vote democrat regardless. Chris Christie won in 2009 because he was running against an unpopular incumbent who was a former wall street executive during the recession.