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NJ-Gov: Primary Results Thread

by: James L.

Tue Jun 02, 2009 at 8:14 PM EDT


RESULTS: Associated Press (county-by-county results available here)

10:04PM (David): Thanks to diligent work and zero ganja breaks over at the New Jersey Board of Elections, the AP is now able to call the race for Chris Christie. Good luck, Mr. Corzine.
9:57PM (David): 53% of precincts are in, and Christie is up 55-42. In other words, Lonegan now has to do better than Christie has all night to eke out a win. Maybe Jon Corzine should have spent $10 mil on the GOP primary.
9:42PM: 2885 precincts in, and Christie has upped his lead to nearly 22K votes, but the percentage spread is still the same: 56-41. Corzine's scraped his way up to 80%.
9:15PM: 1651 precincts in, and Christie is ahead by 56-41... or just under 13,000 votes. Corzine back up to 79%.
9:00PM: With 922 precincts under our belt, Christie's lead has dropped ever-so-slightly to 57-40. Corzine at 76%.
8:45PM: 361 precincts now complete, and Christie is looking fairly comfortable at 59-39. Corzine's up to 80%.
8:34PM: 139 precincts reporting (of 6302), and Christie is ahead, but by a slightly tighter margin: 60-38. Corzine's at 79%.
8:11PM ET: Chris Christie has the very early lead in the GOP primary over Steven Lonegan with just a wheelbarrow-full of votes counted: 62%-35%. Anyone care to guess what share of the vote Jon Corzine will end up with against his three no-name challengers?
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Whoa
I can't imagine this will hold, but Christie (68%) is actually getting a higher share of the vote than Corzine (66%) at the moment.

22, Democrat, AZ-01
Peace. Love. Gabby.
Not only will it not hold
But Republicans are so irrelevant in New Jersey, that I predict that they will barely outpoll Corzine tonight, even though theirs is a contested primary.  
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Unfortunately, not quite.
Even Lonegan almost got as many votes as Corzine.  Not that I think it means much.
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Ok, so I blew that one
But really, Democrats had no reason to show up. The active Republican primary electorate in NJ is apparently about 300,000. There are more than 150,000 Democrats who will show up to vote for no one in particular (a few towns had contested races, but most did not).

Between the two major Senate candidates in 2006, more than 2M votes were cast. The Republican didn't break 1M.

 

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Eh this doesn't look to good and it's to bad.
Corzine is a good guy but his fortune and the negative press due to the economy and personal mishaps over the last few years is really killing him. I hope he pulls it out and if a I get out of poor student status i'll donate a bit.  

CO-02 (college)/FL-15 (home).  
What's interesting
Is where Corzine swamped.  He ran away with the minority-majority pockets of urban northeastern New Jersey (Essex, Hudson, Bergen) as well as slightly less heavily, but still moderately minority Passaic.  Mercer (Princeton) was his only comparable win in a heavily Caucasian county.  I guess either hardcore Dems or just minorities and highly-educated Dems are sticking by him.  Any reason why?

30, male, Democratic, CO-01
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Union County too


30, male, Democratic, CO-01
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As prepared, Corzine gives
a very partisan speech:

[T]he only thing Republicans have delivered is the longest, deepest economic recession in 80 years ...

I ask ... why would we want to go back to the same falled policies that created this crisis in the first place?

Now we all know, there is much at stake in this election.

New Jersey Democrats believe that America is stronger because of its diversity.

We're proud that our state has always welcomed immigrants ... and we know they enrich our lives and our culture.

We trust women to make their own
health care decisions ...

We believe that government should allow people the freedom to marry whomever they love ...

While we believe in the right to bear arms ... we do think that buying one gun a month should suffice.

Our opponents disagree.

They say that government should be small ...

Small enough to slip under your bedroom door.

Small enough to root for a new president to fail ...

Narrow enough to divide us by gender and ethnicity over a Supreme Court nominee ...

Self-righteous enough to dictate their own religious beliefs to the rest of us ...

on stem cell research ... family planning ... and even science curricula.

We must be bigger than that.

Our party is black ... white ... brown ...
all colors ...

We're a Charles Bibbs painting.

We believe the American promise is for everyone.

Yes ... we live in challenging times ...

But I have never been more hopeful or optimistic ...

History shows we get through challenging times if we work hard and make the right choices.

Over the next 153 days, I'm going to make it clear to New Jersey my fighting spirit ... fighting for you ... and believe me ... I've been a fighter all my life.

As the son of a struggling farm family, I know what it's like to be on the long end of a shovel.

I spent my college summers pushing concrete as a construction laborer ...

I know what it's like to be toughened by basic training in the Marine Corps.

I'm proud to have served my country in uniform ... and I respect all who do.

I know what it's like to survive a near-fatal accident ... and fear that I might spend the rest of my life impaired and miss watching my grandchildren grow up.

I remember waking up in Cooper Hospital after eleven days in a coma and seeing my three kids, my brother, and the woman I love at my bedside.

I knew then ... and there ... I would walk out of that hospital.

Tonight, I feel just as confident.

We will win this fall's election!



85% for Corzine
Any lower than that, and it could spell defectors in the general.
Corzine's Speech
Living in New Jersey I know Governor Corzine very well and how he campaigns. This speech he gave tonight is so far as I can say the greatest speech and most enthusiastic speech I have heard him give. And did you see all those equality signs. Makes me proud to live in Jersey. Corzine 2009!  

17, Gay Male, Democrat, NJ-8  
No shock here
Its Christtine v. Corzine...
Christie
Christie's lead is getting smaller and smaller as more results come in...GO LONEGAN!!!....lol  

17, Gay Male, Democrat, NJ-8  
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Anyone know what parts of NJ are out
And if so whom they would favor?
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Well...
Lonegan was the mayor of Bogota for ages -- that's in Bergen County, which has yet to report. County-by-county results are available here. Christie is from Morris County (or at least, he was once an elected official there) -- and they have barely begun to report.
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Go Lonegan! :P
The gap is up to 19,000 votes with 40% in, though.  
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Don't see it
About 40% of precincts have reported, and it's no closer than 56-42%. I'm just not seeing the wide swings or regional variations necessary for Lonegan to pull this one back.

At the moment he's only ahead in one county. He might hold Christie to a 55-45% margin, but more than that seems unlikely.

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Two
Hunterdon and Morris, both VERY narrowly.

30, male, Democratic, CO-01
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Warren
Warren, not Morris.

30, male, Democratic, CO-01
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Whitman Name Not What it Was
From the Star Ledger:
Kate Whitman, 32, the daughter of former Gov. Christie Whitman, lost a three-way race in today's Republican primary for two seats on the Peapack-Gladstone borough council.

In the Republican bastion, a win in the primary is tantamount to winning a seat in the general elecitons. No Democrats were on the ballot.

In what the town clerk called an unusually high turnout in the small borough for a primary election, Whitman received 302 votes. The winners were incumbent Michael Seboria, 357 votes, and Katherine Howes, the highest vote-getter with a tally of 361.


Interesting
though IIRC, she also just lost a primary to Leonard Lance, so she doesn't exactly have a track record.
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She's actually 0 for 3
Apparently, she tried to get the GOP nomination for a seat on the Somerset County Board of Freeholders in 2007, but failed.

It's a shame that New Jersey isn't really crazy about electing every public official like other states, it would be sorta funny to see her go deeper down the totem pole and fail to win nominations at stuff like county coroner or the soil conservation district.

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so the Whitman dynasty has died aborning ...

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AP just called it
GAME ON!
indeed
GAME ON!

Corzine can start the money bombs tomorrow.

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Yep it's good looks like Looney is over 40%
Perfect opening for a fracture in the Republican party.  

CO-02 (college)/FL-15 (home).  
I don't know
it looks like the ganja breaks occurred in Camden, Salem, and Warren Counties. No results yet for the first two, and Warren stopped reporting after getting 16/90 precincts in.
Of course, the second I say that
Salem reports all their stuff. D'oh.
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Salem's in
Too small to matter but 51-45% Lonegan.

30, male, Democratic, CO-01
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Ditto Sussex
50-47 Lonegan.  So, it looks like he's winning the Republican heartland of Garrett's district and a bit south on the west side (Hunterdon).  He also took part of the Jersey Shore but not most of it.

30, male, Democratic, CO-01
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the ganja break
is my favorite insider thing/joke/trope on SSP.  :-)
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What the fuck is a ganja break?
I don't get the joke.

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.
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Ganja = Marijuana
I'm just guessing, but the inside joke at SSP is that, in many states, the reason election returns take so long to come in is because the people who enter the information are too busy getting stoned.

BTW, when did SSP start using the term ganja break?

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I remember first seeing it in the threads for the NY-20 special election
I thought ganja was some kind of game.  I don't know, ganja=jenga?

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.
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That's what I thought until I looked ganja up
after first spotting it on Calitics.

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haha I wonder if it's a bad thing.
To know what that is from expieriences :P.

CO-02 (college)/FL-15 (home).  
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The first appearance of the term on SSP (that I can find)
is from this June 3, 2008 liveblog:

1:13AM (James): I think they're taking a ganja break in CA-04, but the latest numbers, with 22% in, still favor McClintock over Ose by 53-39. Theodore Terbolizard is only garnering 2% of the vote so far. Sadly, it appears that we won't have a new terbolizard to lead us out of the darkness.

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Whoa!
I just realized that we're celebrating one year of ganja breaks on SSP today!

Toke up a big fat spliff for us, if you got one.

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Spliff!
I just had to look that up too! :P

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Lonegan
Lonegan's supporters were booing at him when he asked then to support Christie.....sounds good to me!  

17, Gay Male, Democrat, NJ-8  
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