So with both Trump and Christie gaining ground, how did Politico report the results?
Trump didn't even merit a mention in the headline. But that's great news for Trump -- no, really.
Up until a week or two ago, it seemed as if Marco Rubio was the only Establishment candidate having any success whatsoever. The GOP mainstream needs to coalesce around one candidate -- and Christie's rise in one state, if he can sustain it, will postpone that wagon-circling even longer. The fact that he's Chris Christie, the East Coast media's dreamboat, means that this one poll result will result in a huge wave of gushing coverage. Expect Joe Scarborough to spent most of next week proposing marriage to Christie on the air.
Christie isn't the guy you want as the Establishment pick going into the mostly Southern primaries and caucuses that follow New Hampshire -- unlike Marco Rubio, Christie has zero credibility among religious rightists. Southerners are far less likely to forgive him for being nice to President Obama after Hurricane Sandy, and it's doubtful they'll be impressed with that tear-jerking video in which he talked compassionately about addiction.
Christie's current number in South Carolina, according to the Real Clear Politics average? 1.3%. In Florida? 1.5%. In Georgia? He doesn't even register in many polls.
Keep splitting the vote, establishmentarians. Donald Trump thanks you.
Oh, and if you think that success in New Hampshire would inevitably be a springboard to success for Christie, let me remind you that in 2012 Jon Huntsman finished third there, with 17% of the vote. How'd that work out for him?
Yeah, next week, Cup o' Schmoe will break-out a new pair of kneepads, and have the usual imbecilic suspects on his show slobbering all over themselves to pay homage to the great C. Christie!
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Ok, maybe millions of dollars.
But not a penny less!!!
WTF, MSNBC?
"Whither wander, thou...?"
Incidentally heard on the radio, but this from Atlantic City is as good a source as any, that New Jersey is 50th in the nation in state government spending on tobacco addiction prevention, even though
ReplyDeleteEvery year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends an amount that each state should put toward tobacco prevention efforts. For New Jersey, that recommendation was $103.3 million.
The state has allocated zero dollars for such efforts in the 2016 budget. Estimated state tobacco revenue from the tobacco settlement and state taxes is $921 million...
He can weep for us over his mom, but not a penny for anyone else's mother.
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ReplyDeleteChristie surging. Please God take away my imagination.