Low Blows In The NJ Governor's Race

Bilerico  Nov 02 09

Here in New Jersey, politics is a contact sport and the participants are not shy about drawing blood. It's been this way throughout my adult lifetime and I don't expect it will ever change. It's just the way politics is done around here. Despite that, there are some places where Republicans fear to tread in this state.

We have elected Republican Governors in this state several times these last few decades, but often more as a rejection of the incumbent Democrat than as an endorsement of the Republican agenda. This is evidenced by the fact that despite the changing faces in the New Jersey Governor's chair over the last couple of decades or so, our state legislature is overwhelmingly Democratic and has been so for a very long time. Full story...

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