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Anti-Tax Movement Ponders Two Big Defeats

By | 11.10.09 | 11:50 am

Election night was bittersweet for Andrew Moylan. The young government affairs manager of the conservative National Taxpayers Union was watching returns in Asheville, N.C., with fellow attendees of the conservative State Policy Network’s annual meeting. Early in the night, the gubernatorial races in Virginia and then New Jersey went to More…

Video: Michael Steele Discusses Yesterday’s Elections

By | 11.04.09 | 12:36 pm

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele held a press conference this morning to analyze his party’s election victories Tuesday in Virginia and New Jersey and its loss in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. After the jump, watch some video from the event.

Michael Steele on Christie Win

By | 11.03.09 | 11:01 pm

More end zone dancing from the Republican National Committee chairman:

“Tonight, Chris Christie exceeded all expectations by charging to victory in the heart of Democrat country.  I would like to extend my sincere congratulations to Chris on becoming New Jersey’s next governor and in a special way I congratulate Kim

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Christie Wins in New Jersey

By | 11.03.09 | 10:16 pm

On MSNBC just now, Larry O’Donnell announced that NBC is calling the New Jersey governor’s race for Republican Chris Christie. With 74 percent of the votes counted, Christie leads 50 percent to Gov. Jon Corzine’s (D) 44 percent, with 5 percent for Independent Chris Daggett.

Update: The Associated Press has More…

Conservatives Ready to Claim Election Day Victory

By | 11.02.09 | 6:00 am

WATERTOWN, N.Y. — Conservatives declared victory in the 2009 off-year elections four days before voters went the polls. With the withdrawal of Dede Scozzafava, the embattled moderate Republican candidate, from the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, activists and organizers are toasting a shocking victory over the Republican More…

NJ-Gov Poll: Corzine Stays in the Lead

By | 10.30.09 | 10:31 am

The final Farleigh-Dickinson/PublicMind poll in New Jersey has Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) continuing his slow rise back from oblivion and into contention, leading Republican candidate Chris Christie 44 percent to 43 percent among likely voters, with independent candidate Chris Daggett at 6 percent. Corzine also led in the last More…

NJ-Gov: Christie Slips, Leads Narrowly

By | 10.29.09 | 4:14 pm

The other highly watched Research 2000/Daily Kos poll result casts the New Jersey gubernatorial race the way that everyone else is casting it — a tie, with Gov. Jon Corzine’s (D-N.J.) fate depending on base turnout and the strength of independent candidate Chris Daggett. In this poll, his support More…

NJ-Gov: Is Corzine Winning?

By | 10.28.09 | 11:58 am

I’m hearing some smart Republican pushback to today’s Quinnipiac Poll – given its record in the state, one of the more credible surveys — showing Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) pulling out of a year-long rut and leading Republican candidate Chris Christie by five points.

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NJ-Gov: Corzine in the Lead

By | 10.22.09 | 9:56 am

The new Rutgers-Eagleton poll for New Jersey’s gubernatorial race piles more bad news onto the campaign of Republican candidate Chris Christie, seen just a few months back as the all-but-certain next governor of the state. The topline numbers are bad enough: Christie trails Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) by three More…

Lautenberg Demands Investigation Into Chris Christie

By | 10.20.09 | 5:38 pm

Two months before the 2006 election, then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie let it be known that there was an investigation into a rental deal made by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who was fighting a tight re-election race against GOP candidate Tom Kean. The news dinged Menendez, who was haunted by More…