Nov 2, 2009 8:12am
Did Obama Save Corzine, Stop GOP Sweep?
EmailThe crowds were fired up. So was the president. But is that enough?
NJ is notoriously tough to read. And support for third-party candidate Chris Daggett — the x-factor in this race — makes it even more complicated this year.
But my hunch is that this year's angry voters just won't be denied which means a sweep for the GOP in three races everyone is watching Tuesday: NJ, VA and NY-23?
That hunch is reinforced by a new Quinnipiac poll showing Christie pulling slightly ahead. He was down in last week's Q poll.
Is that enough to stop health care? Don't think so. It will continue grinding its way to passage.
And if Corzine does pull it out, it will be Obama's best sacrifice of a day-off this year.
Here's my conversation with Robin on GMA…
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New Jersey is smarter than that, but we will probably see ambassador Dede soon.
Posted by: earl | November 2, 2009, 8:21 am 8:21 am
Nice to see people learn from their past mistakes, hope its not to late by 2012 and there is something left of America after Obama’s community organizing skills are through bankrupting it.
Posted by: HH | November 2, 2009, 8:43 am 8:43 am
These three elections are a referendum on President Obama and his policies and those of the Democrats in Congress. We gave them a majority to reverse some of polices of the Bush Administration and to solve the jobs problem in the country. Instead we have unleashed a radical administration and the “Radical Democrats” in Congress who believe we gave them an unlimited mandate to enact their policies. Virginia independents are saying they went too far, the New Jersey independents are saying they went too far and the same will occur in New York. Corzine may win in New Jersey but it the election is close it is a huge failure for Obama since New Jersey is such a solid Democratic state. The Democrats have to return to the center or there will be more anger in the streets and at the polls next year.
Posted by: Allen | November 2, 2009, 8:46 am 8:46 am
Both DeDe and Corzine will become ambassadors that is for just about three years …..
Posted by: wizcat123 | November 2, 2009, 8:48 am 8:48 am
Allen – You are correct, the issue is not that Rush Limbaugh has moved the Republicans to the right, the thruth is Obama has moved the Democrat Socialist Party extremely to the left and voters that are more conservative are bailing out in very large numbers.
Posted by: wizcat123 | November 2, 2009, 8:52 am 8:52 am
ABC is so in the tank for Obama.
Posted by: DANIEL | November 2, 2009, 8:52 am 8:52 am
“These three elections are a referendum on President Obama…”
Wishing won’t make it so. The 23rd hasn’t voted in a Dem in 40 years. A Rep winning a Rep district is not exactly earth-shattering. Now if the Dem wins then that would be a repudiation of the Palin-politburo.
“the issue is not that Rush Limbaugh has moved the Republicans to the right, the thruth is Obama has moved the Democrat Socialist Party extremely to the left…”
Wrong and wrong. The Reps are moving the Republican Luddite Party to the extreme right – ask DeeDee, Arlen or Olympia. And Obama has had not moved the Dems left or else the health care bill would look very different. In fact, the very fact that both libs and cons in the Dem party are likely to be unhappy with the result shows that it is a compromise. When the extreme right are happy, well that shows that you’re making 17% of the people happy. When the left and right are unhappy that shows that you’re running down the middle.
Posted by: OB-Wan222 | November 2, 2009, 9:10 am 9:10 am
The NJ race is the only interesting one, and if lost it does show that Obama’s coattails are getting short. Not surprising considering the lifting he is doing on health care and the economy right now, but he’ll need to wrap up the real work and get back to fluffy feel good issues before the 2010 elections or the Democrats could lose the House.
Posted by: jhw539 | November 2, 2009, 9:42 am 9:42 am
I live in NJ and I pay way more property taxes on my tiny piece of land than almost everyone else in the whole country. Christie is the only one who went on record saying he would lower taxes so he gets my vote. He cannot possibly be worse than Corzine.
Posted by: Shane | November 2, 2009, 9:46 am 9:46 am
I think the trees are blinding your view of forrest here. It’s the Independents who are dissatisfied with BOTH Parties that will be deciding 2 out of 3 races here. It’s the Independents that are gaining strength and and the PAC Groups strangle hold on the Government by controlling both Parties that is are the big losers here.
Posted by: Jim Jordan | November 2, 2009, 11:03 am 11:03 am
As “Dandy Don” Meredith used to sing sometime in the 4th quarter on Monday Night Football, when the score was all but in the books…
“Turn out the lights, the party’s over.”
Bye, bye Corzine…. bye, bye Obama….
Bill Engvall is ready to hand Obama his “sign,” upon which reads “LAME DUCK.”
Posted by: Fed_up_with_BOTH_Parties | November 2, 2009, 11:57 am 11:57 am
This country is in the mess it is because of your great President George W. Bush, not President Obama. This is Bush’s mess. 10 Months office and you expect Obama to clear up this mess.Get over it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Shirley | November 2, 2009, 12:39 pm 12:39 pm
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Enough blaming Bush already! Obama has tripled Bush’s deficit mess and wants to spend more to get out of debt. He is not getting out of Bush’s mess in Iraq or in Afghanistan like he said.
Posted by: Elwood Baas | November 2, 2009, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
I too live in NJ, everyone says they hate it here but still vote the same losers in every year, They are brainwashed that Democrats will save the world.. look what they’ve done since control of Congress… 3 years now.
Posted by: kathy | November 2, 2009, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
This isn’t a democrat or republican issue in New Jersey, it is a real estate tax issue where both parties have failed us.When police officers start out in Parsippany making over 70,000 per year and other state workers can retire when reaching 50 years old at 65% of there last 3 years averaged pay including sick days vacaton etc, it was time to stop this 20 years ago, now everybody is paying for it with no way to stop it.
Stop blaming Obama for everything, at least he is trying to do something, because of the cost of the war in Iraq, his Tax cuts and the deregulation on the financial industry, that is the reason we are in the financial mess that we face today. I challenge anyone to do any better, besides look at the team outside of washington that he has…Warren Buffet, etc, at least for the for the first time in 8 years we have a president with a reasonable IQ.
People today just have to have something to complain about because they are so unhappy in there own lives, look to see what you have done instead of lashing out, there is no more manners,ethics or loyalty left in this me me me society.
Posted by: Ken | November 2, 2009, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm
It is funny but I have a feeling that NJ will go to the Democrats and NY as well now that the GOP who dropped out of the race is backing him over a wing nut. VA well, that is a case of not being able to move to the issues and the Democrat deserves to lose. Not much and 2010 will not be much either. No real wins or loses.
Posted by: ant | November 2, 2009, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm
Nothing can save corzine!
Posted by: lovingpolitics | November 2, 2009, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm
None of these races are a “referendum ” on President Obama. His referendum was last November and he won. Va. has voted the opposite of who won the Presidency for years(politicos know that) John Corzine has trailed in the polls consistently except for last week and is unpopular, NY-23 is a REPUBLICAN district so the Republican should win. All of narratives about this being about Obama is just that a narrative by the MSM as usual. Journalist need not apply.
Posted by: Gail | November 2, 2009, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm
The horror of these elections is that the FEC will never stop the Dems from stealing elections. Especially in the NJ, the most corrupt state in the Union. As an old Cape May boy, I wonder if Mr. Christie will have lawyers watching every Dem registrar of voters? And the voting already done by balloting supposedly in the eyes of many are already gathered giving Corzine the election. How one can inspect Absentee ballots is a mystery in NJ! Christie will need a 15,-20 thousand vote majority to even get close in this election. No one can ever win in NJ unless they have a majority going into the final outcome. Hopefully, it is a clean sweep Tues. for the GOP showing ABC, the rest of the MSM and the DNC that Obama is not God.
Posted by: Glenn Koons | November 2, 2009, 6:44 pm 6:44 pm
TO all the people fed up with both parties, I say this. Why not make a better party? Because it takes time and effort to mek a new party that can break through a lot of dogmatism. Better would be to elect somebody in an existing party who BEST represents you, even if they don’t PERFECTLY represent you. I think this is a large part of why McCain is not the president – among other things, Conservatives tend to be purists, and McCain was in no way a pure Conservative.
Posted by: A Non-Partisan Partisan | November 2, 2009, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm
We’ve been fed up by lies after lies by both parties. But the OBAMA DEFICITS really worries me. How can we pay them back?
Obama seems scattered and has no clue. He is good at campaigning and blaming. He was elected to clean the mess, not to be elected to blame the mess. Am I right on this? Keep blaming will make him looks like a weak leader. His strategists around him are so stupid by not helping him out of the mess. I don’t think he has the ability to do it by himself up to this point.
Posted by: talk from sf | November 2, 2009, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
Acorn thinks they can save the election they have visited every cemetary in the state. When will congress shut off their funding or is that something else Obama will save??
Posted by: earl | November 3, 2009, 6:22 am 6:22 am
Bring on the INDEPENDENTS, we have had enough of the other two parties!
Posted by: indymind | November 3, 2009, 6:32 am 6:32 am
My sister in-law pays more property tax in N.J. Than I pay in mortgage payments.So I for one would not be surprised to see Corzine lose.
Posted by: strikerF | November 3, 2009, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm