If Obama wins in 2012, does Christie run for reelection in 2013?

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Christie runs for re-election in 2013. Democratic opposition will either be former US Rep Steve Rothman who was a victim of redistricting. US Rep Robert Andrews from South Jersey who ran for Governor in 1997 but lost in the primary to McGreevey.

No it won't.

It'll be a State Senator or Assemblyman. I'm thinking either Buono or Greenwald.

Buono is a disaster. She lost her Majority Leader spot in the state senate to Loretta Weinberg. Greenwald? Ah maybe kind of a centrist dem like Sweeney is. Those South Jersey Dems are nowhere near as liberal as their Northern Jersey Counterparts on economic issues.

 Andrews? Yeah nice candidate but I think his time has passed to get the Dem Nomination I think for Governor. I personally don't want to see Rothman run. He will bring us back to the Corzine days of too much spending.

I think if Christie doesn't run in 2013 for Governor in the Repubican Candidates might be one of the Kean Brothers(Tom Jr. or his brother Sean), or Joe Kyrollis.

I personally though do want to see Christie run for re-election which I think he will. He has brought good reforms to this state. Still there is more to be done....

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There seems to be some obsession with Cory Booker taking down Christie. And I get it, it's a nice thought. But the thing is, Cory Booker and Christie have a terrific working relationship. Christie got elected, in no small part, due to Democrats like Booker sitting on their hands during his race vs. Corzine.

Booker gets absolutely nothing out of challenging Christie in 2013. He's got to stab a dude he helped get elected in the back, which makes him look terrible to the other insiders he has to deal with. He gets a hard race that he's not even favored to win. He gets retribution from the Christie admin post-2013 if he loses. He loses any sense of power he has over the Democratic party as the savior, the one to unite the warring factions of the NJ Dems via power of pure charisma. He loses frontrunner status for 2017, which is ridiculous, because he'd be heavily favored if he ran for the '17 open seat.

Chris Christie may lose in 2013. He probably won't. Democrats' best bet here is former Gov. Dick Codey in the sense that the public has a positive opinion of him, but he's got troubles when it comes to uniting the Democratic party factions. Funny how that works. It'd make for a very interesting, academic rate: ugly turnout in the cities, offset by better than expected margins in the suburbs.

No other Democrat will really have the resources to win. Republicans have been PHENOMENALLY smart about applying pressure to Pallone to make sure he doesn't have a massive bankroll in his congressional account to start out the 2013 election with. It's just a really hard state to run a campaign in if you're out of power and your opponent is favored. Jim McGreevey kind of limped to the finish line in 1997. He was just lucky he had a terrific message.

Codey was actually kind of popular with Republican Voters in the state when he was an interm governor after Jim McGreevey left.

McGreevey that message he had worked 4 years later for him though. He even carried Ocean County when he won the governorship in 2001.