Exit polls showed Castle would have lost too. We can take it as fact or debate that things would have looked completely different with a different primary outcome....but of those that votes, Coons would have won based on polls that day.
I think there is good evidence in other blue states that that this outcome could have been the case. We simply have too big of a voting disadvantage in these very blue states. In a same world we would have won this race in CT, NV, CA, CO and WA. Unfortunately, no matter how week the Dem candidate nor how good the GOP candidate, the deck is stacked against us in the current environment in the very blue states. While we are winning over independents, we are not making inroad yet in the ‘true blue’ areas where they still believe government is the answer, and public unions, Phd liberals and low income people on the take are going to vote themselves the bigger government every time.
Gov. Chris Christie used the Boys & Girls Club in Trenton to take a shot at the teachers feeling insulted by his refusal to attend their annual convention in Atlantic City this week.It's upsetting to see a real man of Christie's caliber misfiring against candidates outside the GOP establishment, and especially in support of sad-sacks like Castle.Addressing 50 high schoolers and several local officials ... used the Q & A session with students to criticize the New Jersey Education Association, the teachers’ union, as a key cause of the state’s financial woes as well as the woes of urban education in Jersey.
Christie blasts teachers at Trenton Boys & Girls Club (full article and video).