I am basically taking a mental health day after a full weekend of blogging and with elections coming up tomorrow. But I wanted you to see Ramesh:
If the polls hold up, Cuccinelli’s defeat may demoralize social conservatives — especially if the news media spin the defeat as a sign that their concerns are a millstone around the neck of Republican politicians. Christie’s likely re-election shows that such an interpretation is wrong. Being a social conservative is not by itself a political death sentence even in deep-blue territory.
He’s right. Chris Christie is a social conservative. He’s winning in New Jersey because Jersey folks like his attitude. Now that I live across in the river in Pennsylvania, I’ve discovered that people over here, who are almost identical in every other way, actually think Christie is a rude, overbearing jerk.
Like it’s a bad thing.
It’s actually the only reason he’s popular. The New Jersey economy is in the crapper and compares unfavorably with every state in the region. Christie has been a terrible governor. But he’s got Jersey attitude down to a science. They’re sticking with him.
Just remember, Jersey doesn’t travel well. I know. I’ve lived in a lot of different places.
