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Menendez in Jeopardy as Senate Challenger Makes Push
Real Clear Politics ^ | September 21, 2018

Posted on 09/21/2018 1:50:20 PM PDT by SMGFan

The New Jersey Senate race was supposed to be a done deal with incumbent Bob Menendez easily cruising to re-election. It’s rated solid or likely to remain Democratic by most election watchers, and the Democrats were certainly putting it in their win column as they mapped out plans to retake the Senate.

But someone forgot to tell New Jersey voters that this race was uncompetitive. The polls show it to be tight -- Menendez simply has not shaken Republican challenger Bob Hugin in a state Hillary Clinton carried by 14 points over Donald Trump two years ago.

Part of the reason seems to be that despite his acquittal in court on federal corruption charges, Menendez has not escaped the taint that came with his 2015 trial. Another is that Hugin, the wealthy former CEO of a biopharmaceutical company, had already spent nearly $16 million in the race. Throw into this mix a state with the worst affordability index in the country and an expected increase in the gasoline tax on Oct. 1 -- on top of significant increases in state taxes enacted this spring. It seems a combustible mix in which an attractive and well-funded outsider with a sterling resume can give the political establishment heartburn.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


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Only way to defeat some Democrats is with constant TV ads.
1 posted on 09/21/2018 1:50:20 PM PDT by SMGFan
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BUT< BUT, BUT there’s supposed to be this big, blue wave -—wah, wah!!!


2 posted on 09/21/2018 1:53:53 PM PDT by princess leah
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I’ll be doing my part to rid my state of this vermin.


3 posted on 09/21/2018 1:55:25 PM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: SMGFan

Wow....is it even possible?
It would great IF he was voted out.


4 posted on 09/21/2018 1:57:56 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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“Only way to defeat some Democrats is with constant TV ads.”

True. A lot of direct mailings doesn’t hurt either.


5 posted on 09/21/2018 1:58:05 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: New Jersey Realist

Same here!


6 posted on 09/21/2018 2:04:48 PM PDT by Salvey
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So when is the Torch Solution coming?

He steps down and the NJ Supreme Court allows them to substitute a new candidate on the ballot?


7 posted on 09/21/2018 2:12:04 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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So when is the Torch Solution coming?

He steps down and the NJ Supreme Court allows them to substitute a new candidate on the ballot?


Problem

Lautenburg is dead


8 posted on 09/21/2018 2:16:32 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: New Jersey Realist

He is pulling Menedez with ad after AD. Barteletta is doing the opposite, no ads at all.


9 posted on 09/21/2018 2:21:42 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy UP!)
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Bumbling
10 posted on 09/21/2018 2:22:18 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy UP!)
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To: SMGFan

I’m voting for Bob, too. I worked at the company where he was CEO, he’s a smart business guy; RINOish but better than the alternative.


11 posted on 09/21/2018 2:26:28 PM PDT by snakechopper (The future's uncertain and the end is always near.)
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To: lgjhn23

It is possible

Not everyone in New Jersey is a hard core leftist

In fact, very few are.

Menendez is a crook and a weirdo, the moderates don’t like that.

I saw the south Jersey poll that has Hugin up 10 points, that is good, however, South Jersey means Jack in statewide elections, all of south jersey easily gets cancelled out by Hudson county. So it doesn’t matter

where to look, Middlesex county, old suburban neighborhoods, moderate people, union supporters, once they start plugging their noses to the stench that is Menendez, he is in trouble because that is what they are doing.

Ocean and Monmouth will go Hugin, as well as South Jersey

Possible Middlesex is tilting/soft towards Hugin

If Menendez is soft in Burlington and Mercer, its over

That is how Christie won

New Jersey might be a blue state, but it isn’t 100% reliable blue, its no California. Democrats put up some corrupt POS with a pervy background and the moderates will run from it like it was a turd in a punchbowl.


12 posted on 09/21/2018 2:28:16 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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Rich Pezzullo in House District 6 is making a huge push against Frank Pallone as well. THAT would be one hell of a sleeper as well! Interesting times in Joisey.


13 posted on 09/21/2018 2:32:49 PM PDT by GOP Congress
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Problem: Lautenburg is dead

And just when has that ever been a problem for Democrats?........They have elected dead people before............

14 posted on 09/21/2018 2:33:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
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To: SMGFan

It should be my last vote in NJ!


15 posted on 09/21/2018 2:36:15 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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here in Ohio, Renaci is AWOL. Brown is going to get away with another dishonest campaign.


16 posted on 09/21/2018 3:11:08 PM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in a dangerous Liberal world.)
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Hugo is a ferocious pro abort..so it’s a non starter for we few conservatives in the Garden State


17 posted on 09/21/2018 3:15:55 PM PDT by Paddyboy (Roma Omnia Vincit)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

My folks are in cape May
The alpaca farmers
Cape May county is solid R
NYC corrupts everything around it


18 posted on 09/21/2018 3:16:39 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Paddyboy

ever Republican counts (see 1986 and Cranston elected v Zschau

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2007/02/12/an_alan_cranston_flashback/
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Vote against Menendez for his voting record on all issues.


19 posted on 09/21/2018 3:32:26 PM PDT by SMGFan ( .)
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RUSH: Look, my Ed Zschau theory is all wet anyway because we don’t know how he would have voted. Six Republicans voted against Bork, including John Warner. I have since grown and learned from that, so disregard my stupid theory back then.”


20 posted on 09/21/2018 3:34:03 PM PDT by SMGFan ( .)
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