NJ 2013 election

[a83192]

I am astonished at how popular Christie is in NJ is given the fact that the state voted 58% for Obama. 

    The only way I could see Christie winning is if a substantial number of Obama voters vote Republican in November.

  NJ is essentially a Dem state. Something has to be making Obama voters like him.  What could it be?  How could he appeal to Obama voters? 

  Could it be that the polls are oversampling Republicans?

[seanNJ9]

While NJ is a Democratic state when it comes to federal races, NJ has never been against electing a Republican governor.  Christine Todd Whitman in the 90's and Tom Kean in the 80's. Both two term governors.

Chris Christie's personality fits NJ to a T, so his approval numbers were pretty high even they skyrocketed after Hurricane Sandy. Ad this with the fact the Democratic bench in NJ is thin, and the best prospect, Cory Booker, isn't running.

[justfollowingtheelections]

Recent polls have shown that both NJ Dems and NJ Repubs approve of Christie's criticism of the national Republican party.
But I agree with you, his policies are still very different than those of the Democratic party.

[dudeabides]

Easy, he's the greatest Governor our state has ever had and people like being told the truth as opposed to someone who play politics. He's reduced spending, increased school choice, signed tenure reform into law, cut taxes on business, capped property tax increases, passed pension reform, has presided over an era with fewer regulations, and our state has added 75,000 private sector jobs. Additionally, after Sandy, he is proven in crisis.

He is going to win this thing; his most likely opponent is State Sen. Barbra Buono who is far left in a center-left state. Furthermore, she has little name recognition.

[seanNJ9]

NJ's unemployment under Christie is 9.7%, well above the national avg,  blocked a new tunnel across the Hudson, vetoed gay marriage in NJ.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Easy, he's the greatest Governor our state has ever had and people like being told the truth as opposed to someone who play politics.

How many NJ governors' administrations are you intimately familiar with? He's a terrific administrator and politician, and he'll be very welcome in the same circles Tom Kean Sr. and Brendan Byrne run in, but he's far from the "greatest ever."

[Niemeyerite]

  Could it be that the polls are oversampling Republicans?

LoL

Christie is popular because he's been a good Governor + Sandy. Democrats win in deeply republican states, too, it's not as impossible as you're painting it: search Oklahoma, Wyoming and Kansas Gubernatorial election 2002 and 2006

[krazen1211]

He's reduced spending

Hahaha. No. The best that can be said is that he is not a treacherous fiend like Don DiFrancesco.