Christie beats Palin by a half point, steals the headlines

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This whole thread is spinning off its hinges.  It's embarrassing to see people crap themselves over Christie when he has taken the possibility of running completely off the table.  He hasn't been anything but clear, something all other proposed candidates have trouble with, about his 2012 plans.  The left and the right have some kind of complex.

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What are you even trying to prove, that Palin is just as popular among New Jersey conservatives as Christie?  Or that New Jersey conservatives aren't that conservative so that's why they don't like Palin as much as you do?  Either way you're wrong.  Christie was the candidate of the moderates in 2009, Lonegan was the wingnut candidate.  Lonegan did so well because the New Jersey Republican Party has an extremely conservative wing.  That's why it kept losing in the last decade, because it couldn't connect with the state as a whole.  Christie's effective governing and straightforward style have resonated with the whole state and now the conservatives want him on their team.

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Vick,

How's the injury?  Unfortunately, I don't do talking points, so I cannot go along with your talking points.  You might as well write that Lisa Murkowski is very popular in Alaska.

I am having my cake and eating it too.  New Jersy conservatives are more liberal than conservatives in any other state and yet, they almost like Palin just as much as they like Christie.  I am arguing both assertions are true.  rutgers-eagleton found their net favorables to be similar among the very pro-abortion conservative electorate of New Jersey.

Your argument that the New Jersey electorate has a very large conservative contingent may be true....but then again, every Republican electore has a very large conservative contingent.  The point is that New Jersey GOP likely has one of the smallest "very large conservative contingents" in the country.  What that means is that a repeat of the Lonegan-Christie matchup in 35 of the 50 states would have been a victory for Lonegan.  Look at how badly Rossi, hack Kirk, and Ehrlich won their matchups and compare it to Christie.  None of those electorates are as liberal as New Jersey's GOP electorate with the exception of possibly Maryland.

Hahaha ok, all you do is talking points, just like your candidate.  They're almost as weak and delusional as hers also, so congrats on emulating your putrid hero.  There is still no point to your ramblings.  Anyone with a general clue about New Jersey politics knows that it has a very conservative Republican Party, so go ahead convincing yourself it's not true.  And they still don't like Palin, so double-sucks for you.  Good luck in 2012, we'll all be laughing.

Claiming Corzine would have lost to anyone is comical considering the almost universally known power of the Democratic machine in New Jersey.  Republicans DON'T win in Jersey, especially not when they have anything to do with or in common with someone like Palin.  If she were somehow the candidate against Corzine, he would have smashed her.