In a stunning upset, Republican Chris Christie defeated Democrat Barack Obama ... I mean Jon Corzine ... to win the New Jersey governor's race Tuesday.Despite spending $23 million dollars and having Barack Obama campaign for him three times, Corzine, the free-spending liberal and Obama doormat, was tossed out by New Jersey voters in a a clear repudiation of the Obama agenda.
Christie's victory in heavily Democratic New Jersey should send shock waves through the Democratic Party establishment. Earlier in the evening, Republican Bob McDonnell won the Virginia governor's race in another litmus test of Obama's failed presidency.
Look for Democrats in Congress to bail out of Obama's big government, big deficit socialist agenda overnight.
Obama himself told New Jersey voters that the Christie-Corzine election was a referendum on his 10 months as president.
Corzine ran a nasty campaign of personal attacks, including making fun of Christie's weight.
The 300-pound Christie told supporters at a victory rally Tuesday night "we are going to pick Trenton up and turn it upside down."
With 75 percent of precincts reporting by 10:30 p.m., Christie had 50 percent of the vote compared to 44 percent for Corzine. Independent Chris Daggett had about 5 percent of the vote.
(Update: With 97 percent of precincts reporting at midnight, Christie had 49 percent of the vote compared to 44 percent for Corzine. Daggett finished with 5 percent.)
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Stunning upset of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.
Oh Wait.
VA: Deeds ran a HORRIBLE campaign where he only focused on a single thesis from McDonnell instead of talking about how DEMOCRATS took it from a massive defecit to one of the most efficently run states in four years with more success from Democrats four years later. He lost Blue Dogs by saying he'd raise taxes, and lost Northern VA by saying he'd opt out of the public option and DISTANCING himself from the President. Oh -- and VA hasn't elected a governor that matched the executive branch's party since Carter. Mark Warner won with a healthy margin in 2001, basically when George Bush's approval ratings were in the 80-85% range. But clearly that also was a massive referendum.
NJ: He had a 34% approval rating and had a summer riddled with corruption charges. The president has a 58% approval rating in New Jersey. By your logic they should both be at the same level. He was going to lose. You could put a trained monkey by him, with either a elephant or a donkey on it's chest and he would STILL lose.
By the way. I LOVE how you conveniently leave out that a DEMOCRAT won in NY-23. That seat should not have even been in contention for a Democrat. It's a conservative district that has not gone Blue since the 1800s. THE 1800s. He should have been slaughtered. Also love how you left out how in CA-10 a Democrat won by double digits. That district was safely republican until the last election.
Don't let a few facts get in the way though.
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