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Early Saturday morning, 7Online.com, the website for ABC's New York affiliate WABC-TV, reported the previous night's arrest of Jason Shih, an alleged campaign worker for Governor Jon Corzine (D-NJ) charged with "possession of a controlled narcotic and paraphernalia that is used for distribution." For some reason, although the headline "Corzine campaign worker arrested" shows up in a Google News search, the page is no longer available: "We are sorry, but the URL you requested could not be found. The page you are looking for may have been renamed, moved, or deleted." A search of "Jason Shih" and "Corzine" at 7Online.com...

New evidence that Corzine is in trouble, so he calls on, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Just for Men...

A few months ago, needing to cut my monthly budget way down, I examined every place where I could cut. One of the things I noticed was how much money I was spending on a liberal newspaper that was continuing to jack its price while constantly shrinking in size and increasing in content from other news agencies (i.e., less NJ news, which is the reason I bought it in the first place). So I quit the Star-Ledger cold turkey. Other than the comics and the weekly food sections, I discovered that I don't miss it. On Sundays, an acquaintance is...

On Friday’s Situation Room, CNN forwarded an idea proposed by The New Republic’s Peter Beinart- that Democratic losses in the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey this year would result in the reelection of President Obama in 2012. An on-screen graphic during a discussion of Beinart’s hypothesis read, “If The Dems Lose Next Week: How it might help them in the long run.” Anchor Wolf Blitzer read the New Republic contributor’s idea during a “Strategy Session” panel discussion with Republican Mary Matalin and Democrat Paul Begala 53 minutes into the 4 pm Eastern hour: “Peter Beinart, writing in The...

A new survey from Neighborhood Research (R) shows that Republican Chris Christie has pulled ahead as voters are breaking late from the undecided column toward the challenger.

Two polls yesterday show GOP challenger Chris Christie taking the lead over Gov. Jon Corzine, who had pulled even in recent days (and even ahead in another poll) in New Jersey's heated gubernatorial race. Given the vicious and intensely personal negative ads that Corzine has used to pummel Christie, the fact that the corruption-busting former prosecutor has regained the lead shows just how fed up Garden State voters are. The Rasmussen Reports poll gives Christie a 46-43 percent edge, with 7 percent for independent Chris Daggett and 4 percent undecided. And a Public Policy Polling survey puts Christie up 42-38...

New Jersey independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett shows in an interview with Hugh Hewitt that he doesn't know what corruption is, but he at least doesn't recognize it when he sees it with Jon Corzine.

TRENTON, N.J. -- A Florida man accused of killing his son-in-law in New Jersey is arguing that he was unable to commit the crime because he was too fat. An attorney for Edward Ates is making the case that his client wouldn't have had the energy needed to climb and descend the staircase where prosecutors say the killer was perched when Paul Duncsak, a 40-year-old pharmaceutical executive, was shot in 2006. Lawyer Walter Lesnevich claims that in 2006, the 62-year-old Ates, who stood 5 feet 8 and tipped the scales at 285 pounds, was in such bad physical shape that...

The fastest-growing political group in America is "none of the above." There is mounting evidence that even as Democrats slog through a bruising health debate, mounting deficits and bleak unemployment numbers, those political difficulties aren't doing much to directly help their foes, the Republicans. In fact, Republicans themselves are sliding in public esteem, so much so that some polls are finding support for GOP leaders reaching historic lows. The category that's growing in 2009, by contrast, is political independents. Data produced by the Pew Research Center, in fact, show the share of Americans identifying themselves as independents at a historic...

So we have the poll, showing Corzine up 43-38. But as Jim Geraghty points out, they also had Obama winning last year by 23. The final margin was only 15. They also had Sen. Frank Lautenberg beating his rival by 22, and he only won by 14.

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine leads Republican challenger Christopher Christie for the first time in their five-month slugfest, on top 43 - 38 percent among likely voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Independent candidate Christopher Daggett has 13 percent, with 5 percent undecided. This compares to a 41 - 40 percent Christie lead, with 14 percent for Daggett, in an October 14 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. Among Daggett supporters, 38 percent say they might change their mind: 43 percent say Christie is their second choice, while 27 percent say Gov. Corzine is number two....

Was it a cheap shot? Governor Jon Corzine is having second thoughts about one of his campaign commercials that appear to target Republican opponent Chris Christie's weight. "Christie threw his weight around as U.S. Attorney and got off easy," the ad says. For months now Corzine has been making challenger Christie's girth a campaign issue, but Christie's frank admission that he's struggled with his weight must have touched a sympathetic cord with voters because now Corzine is backtracking. Asked if he should have used words other than "throw his weight around," Corzine said, "I think that's probably a good idea."

Chris Christie leads Jon Corzine 42-38, a slight increase from a PPP poll two weeks ago. Independent Chris Daggett is at 13%.

This is a broken glass election for Republicans. People cannot wait to get out and do some tangible, consequential thing to stop the Democrat juggernaut that is destroying the country before our very eyes. Those numbers showing huge disparities between the motivation of the two parties will be the difference that puts Christie over the top.

Pollster Patrick Murray says that the turnout model on a Suffolk University poll released this morning is based on a 93% turnout in a race where less than half of the state's registered voters will turn out. The poll, which included all twelve candidates for governor, has Gov. Jon Corzine leading Republican Christopher Christie 42%-33% among likely voters, with 7% for independent Christopher Daggett. "...Normally, likely voter models have little impact, as they tend to be only a couple of points different from the results for all registered voters. However, that is not the case in this election. The Monmouth...

Exposing the Hoax Please view our three minute video report on the real meaning behind "Green Acres." To our astonishment, a number of State Legislators continue to support this reckless and irresponsible program. With the highest property taxes in the country, the worst and most destructive income tax in America, and a crippling debt load that threatens the future of our state, Democrat and Republican lawmakers join together for a bi-partisan fleecing of our state’s already over burdened taxpayers. Check out our Question One Scorecard and find out who has the guts to stand up against more debt and higher...

Let’s play a game. It’s New Jersey’s election-day equivalent of "Where’s Waldo?" and here’s how it goes: Scan the November ballot and try to find Chris Daggett, independent candidate for governor. You’ll need Magellan’s sense of direction, a strong pair of reading glasses and lots of patience.

A tip from an Albuquerque aircraft charter company led Moriarty Police to an airplane with an unusual cargo— suitcases full of more than $1 million in cash. Moriarty Police Chief Bobby Garcia said the two currency-filled suitcases seized from an airplane at the city's airport on Nov. 27 weighed more than 300 pounds. They contained $1,169,896, Garcia said Wednesday. No arrests have been made in the ongoing investigation. The events that led to the cash seizure began when a private plane requested an emergency landing at the Moriarty Municipal Airport due to engine problems around noon on Thanksgiving. Garcia said...

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine really has no shame. Just hours after Bergen County's longtime Democratic machine boss, Joseph Ferriero, was convicted Thursday on three federal felony corruption counts -- which could land him in prison for 20 years -- New Jersey's governor proudly defended having written him personal checks totaling nearly a half-million dollars.

The Army will make an exception to a decades-old rule and allow a Sikh doctor to serve without removing his turban and cutting his hair, an advocacy group said Friday. The doctor, Capt. Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi of Riverdale, N.J., is the first Sikh to be allowed to go on active duty with a turban, beard and unshorn hair in more than 20 years, the New York-based Sikh Coalition said.The decision does not overturn an Army policy from the 1980s that regulates the wearing of religious items, the acting deputy chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Gina Farrisee, wrote in a letter...

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., center, flanked Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, and Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., discuss "the urgent need for health insurance reform". GRAND RAPIDS — Senior citizens will find it harder to find a doctor who accepts Medicare if Congress does not stop a 21.5 percent cut in payment rates, say physicians and hospitals. “We might as well start building bigger emergency rooms, because that’s where people will be if they don’t have access to a regular physician,” said Micki Benz, vice president of development for Saint Mary’s Health Care. “In the end, people’s care will suffer, and...

Back in 2003, the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority, which funds rail and road projects in the state, sold $345 million in auction-rate bonds. That's where the trouble began: Bloomberg: “This vividly shows the risk of entering into interest- rate swap agreements,” said Christopher Taylor, former executive director of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board in Alexandria, Virginia. “The world’s got to see what stupidity even the sophisticated investors like the transportation fund can get into.” While New Jersey replaced the debt with fixed-rate securities in 2008 after the $330 billion auction-rate bond market froze, the swap -- in which...

Shortly before he took the reins of a government bleeding red ink and mired in ethical muck, Jon S. Corzine relaxed by tackling a different kind of challenge. It was Thanksgiving weekend 2005, after a hard-fought campaign and a couple of months before he would be sworn in to his new job. Corzine and the youngest of his three children went on an Aspen, Colo., getaway. But the slopes, Jeffrey Corzine recalled, were "unskiable." Yet Jon Corzine went all day, riding the toughest trails. Such determined gusto, according to his children, is typical. Jennifer Corzine-Pisani said her father would stumble...

HACKENSACK, N.J. – President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged New Jersey to keep Democrat Jon Corzine as governor, calling him an honorable man who puts the people's interests first. "That's the kind of governor that Jon Corzine has been. That's the kind of governor that Jon Corzine will continue to be. That's why New Jersey needs to give Jon Corzine another four years," Obama told a cheering crowd of more than 3,000 in a gymnasium at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Making his second political trip of the week in support of a Democrat on the Nov. 3 ballot, Obama touted Corzine's...

With less than two weeks until election day, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine could really use some of what President Barack Obama has — not just the charisma, but also the credibility, the aura of a leader who can shake up politics as usual. If one thing is clear in New Jersey, it's that voters are fed up with the status quo. So on Wednesday, Obama is visiting the Garden State to try to rub some of his political magic off on Corzine at a Hackensack campaign rally, the second such presidential visit this year. Voters can expect to hear...

A private security guard at Newark Liberty International Airport has been arrested Wednesday on charges of threatening President Barack Obama. Port Authority spokesman John Kelly says John Breck allowed police to search his Linden home and officers found 43 firearms. U.S. Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley says the 55-year-old denied making any threats. Obama will be in New Jersey on Wednesday to campaign for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. Air Force One is scheduled to land around 4:30 p.m.

CBS station WCBS-TV in New York has confirmed that a Newark Liberty International Airport employee was taken into custody last night in connection with a threat against President Barack Obama. According to a Port Authority spokesman, John Breck was arrested in his New Jersey home after a co-worker alerted authorities that the suspect made threatening remarks about President Obama. Breck allowed police to search his Linden home and officers found 43 firearms. U.S. Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley says the 55-year-old denied making any threats. It is not known whether the alleged threats against the president were made to coincide...

A new Monmouth University poll for Gannett New Jersey has the state's gubernatorial race in a dead heat two weeks before voters head to the polls. Once again, it's independent candidate Chris Daggett whose numbers are growing, pulling both major party candidates below the 40 percent line.

The people of New Jersey now have the opportunity to elect the most stimulating Republican candidate for elected office, ever. The stimulation comes from the business which she runs.

Officials haven't seen sea cow since FridayThe South Florida manatee who made news for his 1,200 mile trip from the Keys to NYC is missing in the waters off New Jersey, and officials are worried he may be in trouble. Ilya the manatee was spotted in New York harbor late last week after a month-long trip that began in Key West with stops in Maryland and Massachusetts. Ilya, who was first tagged by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 10 years ago, had found a warm place to stay near a refinery in Linden, N.J., and officials were hoping he'd...

Jason Cullen, an Independent candidate for New Jersey Governor, is a conservative not bound by party politics. Jason is a hard working middle class New Jersey resident who is looking to bring the peoples’ voice back to the government. He believes in the free market, fiscal responsibility, budgeted and effective government spending. Jason is someone who will stand up for what he believes in and is willing to go the distance if it means doing what is right for New Jersey, not for its special interest groups. The time has come to follow George Washington’s advice that political parties would...

New Jersey Governor: Christie 45%, Corzine 41%, Daggett 9%

MAYS LANDING, N.J. - Eugene Robinson said sex was the last thing on his mind as he drove the pretty young woman who had asked for a ride to her motel. "I was waiting for God to send me the one that's supposed to be my Christian wife," he said. "That's what it says in the Bible." Yet within minutes of taking the woman to a cheap motel in neighboring Absecon, the 67-year-old Atlantic City Councilman and Baptist minister was receiving oral sex. "I was so surprised," he testified Wednesday in an Atlantic County courtroom. "I, um, hadn't really had...

One year ago, the Newhouses were threatening to close down their treasured jewel, The Star-Ledger, unless the paper’s union made a series of concessions, which included cutting the newsroom by 40 percent. They got what they wanted, and it seemed like things could go back to normal, albeit with fewer deckhands on the ship. Yet on Monday, George Arwady, the publisher of the The Star-Ledger, wrote in a memo to staff that “the revenue situation at our newspaper has worsened this year, and we expect a further significant revenue decline next year.” Now, the paper needs to cut 50 more...

When an incumbent governor goes before the voters seeking another term, the difference between reelection and defeat often lies in the economy. And while the economy’s performance affects people in many ways — inflation, home prices, gas prices, cost of living — probably few factors weigh more heavily on voters’ minds than the unemployment rate does. If you want a job and can’t find one — or if you feel insecure about the job you do have — your life is usually pretty unhappy, and you begin to suspect that your state is badly managed. Thus, a governor’s chances for...

The Newark Star-Ledger, the Newhouse-owned newspaper where 150 newsroom staffers took buyouts last year, is about to suffer even deeper cuts. According to a memo sent to out by publisher George Awady (see below), executives will be seeking another round of buyouts, and if that doesn’t work, involuntary layoffs. For many years, the Newhouse newspapers kept unions at bay by promising lifetime employment, but the implosion of the industry has swept those promises into the dustbin of history. The newspaper, long admired for its comprehensive coverage of the chronically corrupt northern New Jersey region it covers, did manage to lure...

From the Press of Atlantic City: Asked directly if he thought Christie was fat, Corzine touched his bare head, smiled and said, "Am I bald?"

The Star-Ledger endorsement of independent Christopher Daggett could violate state regulations that prohibit debate sponsors from endorsing candidates before the completion of the debate. In their application to sponsor the October 16 gubernatorial debate, the Star-Ledger agreed to not endorse a candidate for Governor until after the debate was over. The New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC), in their published regulations on gubernatorial debate sponsorship (N.J.A.C. 19:25-15.50) states that "to be eligible for selection by the Commission to sponsor one or both of the gubernatorial general election debates, an organization... must not have endorsed any candidate in the pending...

Conservatives 4 Palin blames Ed Gillespie, who’s soft on Mitt and hard on Palin, for turning Virginia candidate Bob McDonnell against her when he took over the campaign. But is this really so hard to understand that it requires an ulterior motive to explain it? Romney, Huckabee, Jindal, and Pawlenty have all been to Virginia on McDonnell’s behalf. Proof of a Gillespie vendetta against Palin? Or just basic no-brainer politics in not wanting to “benefit” from a cameo by someone whose favorable rating among independents is 33/59? McDonnell’s sitting on a nine-point lead in a state that broke for Obama...

Earlier this year, Republican Chris Christie looked like a really safe bet to beat New Jersey’s incumbent governor, Democrat Jon Corzine. The polls in July showed Christie with a lead ranging from 7 to 15 percentage points. Of course, since then the former U.S. attorney has had millions of dollars’ worth of negative ads dumped on his head; one estimate calculates that Corzine is spending a million a week on television advertising. One result is unsurprising — Christie’s lead has dwindled to a mere 3 to 4 points in most polls — and another is somewhat surprising: Even with that...

Generic Ballot: Republicans 43%, Democrats 39%

New Jersey Governor’s Race A Toss-Up: Christie 47%, Corzine 44%

A new Fairleigh Dickinson-PublicMind Poll finds New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D) edging ahead of Chris Christie (R), 44% to 43%, within the poll's margin of error. Another 4% volunteer they will vote for independent Chris Daggett and 5% say they are undecided. When Daggett's name is read in an interview along with Corzine's and Christie's name, Corzine leads Christie 38% to 37% and Daggett gets 17% of the vote. Key finding: It's clear independent candidates could be the deciding factor in this race. Even when another independent candidate's name is read -- such as Gary Steele -- the effect...

Here is video of the Wall Street Journal Report talking about Republican candidates leading in two Governors races in states Obama carried easily in 2008. In New Jersey, Republican Chris Christie leads incumbent Democrat Gov. Jon Corzine by four points, and Republican Bob McDonnell leads Democrat Creigh Deeds by seven points in Virginia (Real Clear Politics Averages). They point out that the last time the GOP won both of these Governorships was 1993, just ahead of the GOP landslide in 1994 that took control of Congress. . . . (VIDEO)

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The gubernatorial race in New Jersey has not changed fundamentally recently, no matter what you may read in poorly produced Associated Press stories distributed by the Democratic Governors Association, the Democratic National Committee or Gov. Jon Corzine's (D) campaign.

Chris Christie needed a win. On Thursday night, he got one. Christie, the New Jersey Republican challenging incumbent Democratic governor Jon Corzine, has seemed aimless in recent weeks, fading in the polls just as this tight gubernatorial race enters its final stretch. In early August, a Monmouth/Gannett poll showed Christie ahead by 14 points; this week, the same poll showed him ahead by just three. Wednesday’s Quinnipiac poll also showed Christie only slightly ahead, 43 percent to 39 percent. In July, Quinnipiac had Christie besting Corzine by 13 points. The catalog of reasons for Christie’s drop is as long as...

Christie Leads Corzine By 4

EDITOR'S NOTE: By now, many have seen the videos of the indoctrination of very young American children in a New Jersey public school, taught to sing the praises of Barack Hussein Obama. Below are lyrics to two of these songs. The first, stylized to the classic "Battle Hymn of the Republic", written by Julia Ward Howe in 1861, has young children singing the praises of Barack Hussein Obama. Next, read the original lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" which was penned for the abolitionist movement and became a rallying cry for the Union during the American Civil War....