Look, Christie won this election the day he embraced Obama

[scheming daemons]

Ironically... that photo image is why he will likely not win the GOP Presidential nomination in '16.

Every single GOP rival in 2016 will blast the photo of Christie embracing Obama until every teabagger's overriding thought about Christie is that he is the guy that "hugged the Kenyan usurper".

The GOP primary is heavily weighted to winning in Iowa and SC early. Christie has no chance to finish in the top 3 in those states' GOP primary.

And if he does manage to win the GOP nomination, the teabaggers will draft someone to run as an independent.

The best thing that could happen for Christie and the GOP is for the Tea Party to be wiped out in 2014.. thus getting the GOP to finally jettison them.

If the Tea Party stays relatively strong through 2016, the Dems will hold the White House.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. That's basically it in a nutshell. nt

[MannyGoldstein]

2. And the day Obama embraced Christie. nt

[scheming daemons]

4. definite quid pro quo

Christie ended Romney's chance at winning in '12 when he helped Obama look good in the wake of Sandy.

And the same thing won Christie the election tonight.

[sabrina 1]

12. According to the news, 30% of NJ Dems voted for Christie. Do you think that was because Christie

hugged Obama? I sure hope we have not come to the point where a cult of personality goes so far as to cause people to vote for the OTHER PARTY, but nothing would surprise me.

I am willing to bet one thing, it was NOT Progressives who voted for Christie.

And why was the DNC unwilling to help the Dem Candidate in NJ?

[joshcryer]

15. +1, I bet we can find posts about that.

I found this one where people look at Cristie's actions as highly damaging of his Presidential prospects: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014468818

[Azathoth]

14. Yeah it's always better to publicly tell the governor of a disaster-ravaged state to go fuck himself

when he tries to make nice. Voters really love that kind of thing during election season. It lets them know you're not the kind of guy who would put raw partisanship ahead of professional responsibility.

[JI7]

3. you think it will be a repeat of Charlie Crist in Florida ? remember how the Crist hugging OBama

hurt him in the Primary ?

[Pretzel_Warrior]

5. pretty much. Buono trailed by less than 20 points before Sandy. After? by 38.

Virtually NO ONE was going to beat the juggernaut, Kristy Kreme, after the hurricane Sandy performance.

http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/09/13/barbara-buono-the-ultimate-underdog.html

[joshcryer]

9. And Buono gets to blame her own party.

As opposed to admitting campaign defeat. Which is precisely what she did.

[bluestate10]

6. Yep. Christie's actions in the aftermath of Sandy helped him.

The performance dug a hole for any Democratic opponent. Even though she lost Bono set herself up well for a run in 2016.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. They played a blip from Buono's concession speech on local radio

here in Philly. She was pretty pissed... livid in fact. I guess I don't blame her.

[joshcryer]

7. Yep. And he did it to deflect from his piss poor handling of Sandy.

Since it took Occupy Sandy to actually get stuff distributed, quicker than anything the government could do.

[liberal_at_heart]

8. That's what everybody said about the Tea Party. No one took them seriously until they

won and hijacked Congress.

[scheming daemons]

10. tea party can win local elections... cant win nationally

[joshcryer]

11. The media hyped them to hell and back.

A lot of us did take them very seriously. And we will take Cristie seriously.

But we won't throw our nomination under the bus if they shake hands with someone we don't like or something.

[JI7]

16. the media took them more seriously than they should, they have power within the republican party

and in very conservative areas . but as seen by Virginia not outside of those very red areas.