[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

The way I look at it now, there’s one party in power in NJ – it’s composed of all democrats and 80% or so of the Republican politicians. This one party will do anything they can to keep the “Schundler wing” (of which Scott Garrett is a solid soldier) from gaining ground.

Garrett will make a GREAT representative, if he can hold on.

I used to live in the 5th. Roukema was a Whitman clone and she kept winning GOP primaries simply because people there find fishing a lot more important than voting in a primary. Then they had no choice but to vote for her in the general election.

I just don't see how a Demo could win that seat. Unless the fine people there would find fishing a lot more important then voting in a general election. And this may very well be the case, given how interchangeable the 2 'maojor' parties have become lately.

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I live in the 5th now. I refused to vote for Roekema last time out, and since there was no third party choice, I just left the line blank.

She was a total disaster, and Garrett came close twice to defeating her (he had my vote in the second primary, I lived elsewhere during his first campaign.)

Losing a sitting RINO congressman in a primary with a conservative would have been humilating for "the party". Shame it didn't happen.