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“Pizza the Hutt wins a landslide in NJ but no coattails, GOP gains in the legislature were slight. Rats put all their money and attention there.”

More important than the RATs ignoring the gubernatorial race and concentrating on the legislative races, they drew quite the gerrymanders in both the state house and senate. GOP candidates won in landslides in GOP districts, but apart from minority-majority districts the Dem districts are all like 55%-58%% Dem (which pretty much caps the GOP at 45%-48%). Moreover, there are a lot of “rotten borough” districts that elect Democrats; it’s not that the districts have a lower population, but some of these inner-city districts have so many non-voters (under 18, lack of citizenship, incarceration, etc.) that less than half as many votes are cast there than in suburban GOP districts.

In truth, NJ voters cast more votes for Republican legislative candidates than for the RATs. I counted the votes cast for GOP and RAT candidates for the state senate yesterday (I checked it on AP a few minutes ago, so almost all precincts were in), and GOP candidates received 956,050 votes to only 620,257 for RATs; throw in independents, and GOP state senate candidates got the same 60% statewide as did Christie for governor. Now, one of the RATs ran unopposed (so the votes cast for him weren’t announced), and the RATs didn’t run anyone in a GOP district where an indie ran, but adjusting for that would reduce the GOP statewide margin by maybe 50,000 votes, meaning that Republican state senate candidates would get 58% of the vote adjusting for those two districts. So it seems that Christie did have coattails, although not large enough to overcome the Democrat gerrymanders.

Thank you.

In that case I almost have to salute the efficacy of those pigs’ gerrymandering.

I have renewed anger at the traitor House Speaker in Virginia that wussed out on redrawing the Senate lines there that would have ensured we’d retake the majority in 2015.