Posted on 10/15/2013 7:30:57 AM PDT by cotton1706
For the first time in his political career, Cory Booker is dealing with a hostile/skeptical national media. He's winning by 10 points in the Monmouth poll, when the pollster tells reporters Booker really should be up by 20. Conservative media have found people who can contradict Booker's most dramatic tales of derring-do, and schlepped to Newark to talk to activists who hate the guy and claim he doesn't live in the city. The MSM, belatedly, has caught up and asked if Booker's star has already faded. There's a rhythm to campaigns, and once a front-runner gets into the "problem-plagued" stage of his life cycle, he struggles to pull out. (See Martha Coakley, whose 2010 Senate campaign made little national news until polls showed her behind Scott Brown. From then on, coverage of Coakley was largely about coverage of her gaffes.)
I'm betting that the candidate with the poll lead, higher favorables, and more experienced campaign team will, indeed, win, but I'm interested in how the race has become a test kitchen for attacks on liberals. Steve Lonegan, Booker's opponent, is running his third statewide campaign, his first as a nominee.* He's been bolstered the whole time by conservative groups that want to play in every race—the Susan B. Anthony List, the Tea Party Express—and by the American Principles Project. The strategy from the candidate on down has been to portray Booker as a Hollywood phony who's also more extreme than he lets on. The goal: Make it tough for Booker to portray Lonegan, who's a down-the-line conservative, as the "extremist." In this Oct. 4 debate clip juiced by SBA List, Lonegan demands that Booker answer for his NARAL-approved stances against the Hyde Amendment and late-term abortion bans.
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Ruh-Roh!
It’s been a fun race to watch. However Lonegan will still lose by 10%. NJ is lost to America.
Conservatives should not feel that the loss is anything other than what is expected.
I will predict that if (when) Booker wins, the Reps in the Senate will fold completely and the house reps will start to drift
I’m trying not to get my hopes up for victory.
But rather, savoring the victory that has already been. Booker should have been a shoo in....but his buddy Bloomberg had to drop in a million, and so on.
And all of this not against a Scott Brown Republican, but a Ted Cruz Republican.
This gives me a little bit of hope.
Now....if Lonegan wins (ie, if the fraud machine was unprepared and they haven’t had the time/resources to ramp it up....), then, wow, Katie Bar The Door! Because if Cruz can beat obama in New Jersey of all places...then....America just might survive for a while. We might actually elect Cruz and push back the sewage for twenty years or so.
But like I said: not getting my hopes up for that. Because really and truly, Lonegan has given us a bit of a victory here regardless!!!!
Tend to disagree..a close loss will open some eyes...Lonegan’s been attacking Obamacare hard...and that’s gonna play...remember..Obama’s not running again...lots of Dems are..in ‘14 & ‘16
Wait, Booker will fall back on the race card.
Only from Middlesex County north, plus Atlantic City, Trenton and Camden. The rest of us would love to split off and create our own state.
If we can eventually take the house, senate and presidency we can push it back forever, as the RATs are now attempting to do with two out of three. But we didn't do it last time we had the chance...
Steve Lonegan will be in our little town of Belvidere in Warren County this afternoon at 4:00 PM. The address is 404 Third St. We here in Warren Cty. will go for Lonegan by 60% or more. I know thet it is difficult to overcome the overrun cities where dead people vote & others vote multiple times. But we keep trying. All in N.J. must get out & vote tomorrow & encourage your families & friends to do the same.
Join me at 4:00. I will be there.
Don’t forget Warren & Sussex Counties. We would love to join you.
I hope you are right. I pray God opens the eyes of the citizens of NJ
Imagine Lonnegan’s radical strategy, actuslly criticizing a liberal!
This is why we must push for the presidential electoral votes to be cast by Congressional district. An uphill battle for sure, as that would kill the metropolitan areas strangle hold on the state.
In “Lonegan vs. the Ants” didn’t he burn them???
For starters, he’s been airing this in prime time. This is how he pulled ahead - IMO. So far, he spent $1.2 million while Booker spent $12 million.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb8CpkG_JmY
Gloucester, Cumberland, and suburban Camden Counties all vote Dem in statewide and national elections. Northwest NJ is the most Republican part of the state.
Guess I'll have to move away from my beloved Shore, then! But what they call Republican here is mainly Democrat-lite.
Yes, the whole “let’s play nice” Republican philosophy needs to be tossed into the dustbin of history. Good guys finish LAST! START PORTRAYING the DEMS as who they are: EXTREMIST SOCIALISTS who WANT POWER to CONTROL AMERICANS!
Bayonne effectively moved to Toms River, now everyone wants a job with the county with little effort.
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