John Edwards to campaign in New Jersey

[rocktivity]

From Newsweek.com:

Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards will campaign in New Jersey for the first time on Tuesday, joined by...Sept. 11 widow...Kristin Breitweiser...at the Robert Treat Hotel (in Newark)...(T)hen he will attend a fund-raiser at the Hilton Hotel in East Brunswick.

...Recent polls show that President Bush and Kerry are in a dead heat in the race for New Jersey's 15 electoral votes...Al Gore (had a) 16 percentage-point victory over President Bush in the Garden State in 2000.

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[Voltaire99]

1. Gore's 16 percentage-point victory vs. Kerry's dead heat

That should tell all but the greatest diehards something. And no, it's not the Rev. Karl Rove's media kool-aid alone that's to blame.

There's a good piece in today's Guardian on what's happening:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1313633,00.html

[sage1]

2. It's the McGreevey factor...

the sleazy way he governed, and the despicably way he outed himself to his constituients and his wife. Many demoncrats and independents want to take a shower after his administration is out. And this hurts Kerry.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

3. "demoncrats"?

Speaking of people outing themselves...

[rocktivity]

14. That's why I'm glad he set his own resignation date

Keeping the governor's seat out of the GOP reach is the LEAST he can do!

:headbang:
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[henslee]

6. 1. Springsteen can keep NJ blue. 2. Dem Convent. shouldve been in FLA.

And voter disenfranchisement should have been the centerpiece.

(On edit) Not for one second do I think Jersey will ever go Bush.

[Leilani]

7. That is a very good piece on the current state of things...

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see things more objectively.

[Supersedeas]

4. a dead heat???

[sr_pacifica]

5. My Jersey friend

will shit a brick if her home state goes Bush. I don't believe the polls---not New Jersey!

[WindRavenX]

8. NJ is not going red

It just isn't.

[Leilani]

9. If New Jersey goes red, prepare for a landslide

New Jersey voters should be among Kerrys CORE constituency.

Well-educated, high-income, sophisticated...

Urban & suburban...essentially bedroom towns of New York & Philly

Socially moderate to liberal

High tax state (not opposed to government)

Minorities of all types; a typical melting pot.

[WindRavenX]

10. yeah

If NJ goes for *, the election is pretty much lost.
If Kerry can't win NJ....*sigh*
But that's just poor speculating. NJ is going JK all the way.

[brentspeak]

11. I find it hard to believe myself

But, to my eyes at least, there seems to be as many "Bush/Cheney" bumperstickers and yardsigns here in New Jersey as there are for "Kerry/Edwards".

[Kool Kitty]

12. Not where I live.

More Kerry signs, including mine.

[JI7]

13. he is going for a fundraiser

they do that in california also. anytime they come it's for a fundraiser but sometimes they hold some other event while here also.