Posted on 09/29/2005 9:25:37 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
As Corzine lead wilts, Clinton gets call
WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton is being called in to help rescue the slumping New Jersey gubernatorial campaign of Jon Corzine, who has given up a double-digit lead and is just 4 points ahead of Republican Doug Forrester in a new poll.
"It's 911 time in the Corzine campaign. Obviously, he's in trouble," said a senior Democratic strategist.
Clinton will campaign with the Democratic U.S. senator today at Kean University in Union, hoping to turn around Corzine's stalled run for the New Jersey statehouse.
A Quinnipiac poll gives Corzine a 48%-to-44% lead over Forrester - a 6-point drop from a month ago. Other recent polls have Corzine up by 9 points, but they also show him ceding a double-digit lead.
Strategists say it's not too late for Corzine to turn it around, and one said "it's not a surprise" he has tapped the ever-popular Clinton to help fix the problem.
Corzine is accused of trying to conceal a $470,000 loan to ex-girlfriend Carla Katz, the head of New Jersey's largest state workers union.
The race has become a titanic TV ad war, with both millionaire candidates digging deep into their pockets to buy time on New York and Philadelphia stations that penetrate into New Jersey.
Clinton did wonders for candidates in the 2000, 2002 & 2004 election *L*
The big question I have is that if Corzine can't turn it around, will they pull another 11th hour Torricelli on Doug Forrester and who will they dig up to play the part of the corpse of Frank Lautenburg? Florio? Byrne? Bill Bradley? Bon Jovi?
Note to NJ: Remember NOLA.
Klintroon should be the FINAL Nail in the coffin.........
John Gotti Jr.........
Defeating Corzine would be a sweet surprise ... he was considered a shoo-in given his bottomless pockets.
It says something about how sick the people of New Jersey is that they still have positive feelings for Clinton. Gawd, what the hell is wrong with this country that they love a criminal, a lout and a low life like Clinton who got 3000 of them killed by doing NOTHING against Al Qaeda in the 90s, tying the hands of our intelligence agencies and cutting their budgets and letting Bin Laden get away up to 12 times in the 90s according to 2 recent books, "Why America Slept" by LIBERAL New York Times journalist Gerald Posner and "Losing Bin Laden" by Richard Mintier. And no small number of New Jersites were among the dead on 9-11.
Yet the country if you believe the polls, and I'm not sure I do, have turned against Bush who's done BIG THINGS to turn the economy around and protect the nation unlike the do-nothing felon Clinton who left our ass hanging out there for Bin Laden to kick. We're living in an Alice in Wonderland nation right now where the people of this nation are approving of evil and turning against real leadership that's trying hard to do the right thing and to honor their office. Is it any wonder we're being hit with one disaster after another?
I hear they still have a soft spot in their hearts for Mcgreevy.
It will be Bruce Stringbean...trust me.
In a party full of world class liars, Corzine is the best.
Corzine is accused of trying to conceal a $470,000 loan to ex-girlfriend Carla Katz, the head of New Jersey's largest state workers union.Can't wait to hear the Toon's comments on that one ...
For a state whose current homosexual governor appointed his lover as head of Homeland Security and where the dems had to bring in a last minute candidate to replace crook Torreceli for the senate you would think the voters would get the message about the democrats
Even Tony Soprano would make that state look good
They're printing up phony ballots already, so they won't lose this election. Unless we institute the fool-proof purple finger mode of voting, there will never be honest elections in Dem urban areas. Any chance of a good hurricane cleaning up NJ?
Corzine is accused of trying to conceal a $470,000 loan to ex-girlfriend Carla Katz, the head of New Jersey's largest state workers union.
ex-girlfriend, that's one expensive whore.
bring back the torch.
I disagree. Clinton got Blanco and Landrieu both owe him their elections. The minority uber vo0te was activated in both cases, I think.
Well, Corzine is toast. He has just received the Klintoon Kiss of Death....
Bill has batted 1.000 in so far as his help getting someone defeated, wouldn't it? Gore, Kerry, etc. have all gone down in defeat with Bubba's help, God I hope he helps Hitlery if she runs.....
Dont be so quick to dump on NJ. If we didnt have so many welfare types here the state would have gone to Bush.
STATUS CANDIDATE VOTE VOTE % EV
Kerry
1,911,430 53% 15
Bush
(Incumbent)
1,670,003 46% 0
Nader
19,418 1% 0
Badnarik
4,514 0% 0
Peroutka
2,750 0% 0
Cobb
1,807 0% 0
Brown
664 0% 0
Van Auken
575 0% 0
Calero
530 0% 0
see link
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/NJ/P/00/index.html
I know! Maybe they could substitute Lautenberg at the last minute!
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