Maybe if he’d lived in the district, he would have known more people there. All the big national names in the world won’t help if the race is seen as one of local concern.
Not fair! He was redistricted out of his area.
That is a huge swath of land that that district covered. Don’t know how “local” that would make certain issues to voters.
I think it comes down to third party candidates still have a hard time winning, even when supported by the likes of Sarah Palin. Each individual has to earn the votes. Or at least that is the true conservative way.
Hoffman can try again next year.
Meanwhile Huffpo is having a field day over there claiming their losses in Virginia and New Jersey had nothing to do with Obama. Well you can’t have one without the other: saying gleefully that Sarah Palin couldn’t pull it off for Hoffman, yet Obama couldn’t pull it off for Corzine.