So What's The Upshot? Predictions Thread

Vice-President Christie (0.00 / 0)

He will be offered the slot by whomever is nominated, and he is very likely to be on a winning ticket.

If the ticket loses: he will not run for a second term as governor, (he would most likely lose anyway). He will instead start running for president in 2016.

In either case: I continue to doubt he is running for a second term as governor. He will screw everything up, leave, and the next governor will have to clean up his huge mess.

http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com

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by: Jersey Jazzman @ Tue Oct 04, 2011 at 19:11:59 PM UTC

I still think... (0.00 / 0)

...he is gunning for Attorney General. Christie does not have the temperament to be a do-nothing VP, so unless he looks at himself as the next Dick Cheney (nightmarish thought), the AG is a more powerful position.  

Blog: http://www.deciminyan.org

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by: deciminyan @ Tue Oct 04, 2011 at 19:28:18 PM UTC

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yoko ono (0.00 / 0)

folks still blame Yoko for breaking up the beatles. I wonder if GOP fanboys will blame Christie's decision not to run on his wife in a similar manner.

activist for hire.

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by: Jay Lassiter @ Tue Oct 04, 2011 at 19:32:29 PM UTC

Times is reporting that... (0.00 / 0)

She actually ok'd the decision three weeks ago in a 6 am conversation. So it's all on the Governor himself. Say it ain't so...

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by: the_promised_land @ Wed Oct 05, 2011 at 11:02:04 AM UTC

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the Jersey press poll (0.00 / 0)

another possible advantage to this announcement is that some of the more obsequious members of the NJ State House press corps will have a bit less incentive to be so kissyy-assy.

activist for hire.

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by: Jay Lassiter @ Tue Oct 04, 2011 at 20:58:41 PM UTC

Palin (0.00 / 0)

The media will turn their attention somewhere. May as well be her.

If not, Romney cruises to the nomination, and we go from there.

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by: Jeff Gardner @ Tue Oct 04, 2011 at 21:53:06 PM UTC

From your mouth... (0.00 / 0)

...to the political gods' ears.

The only thing that makes this remotely possible is the collapse of the Bachmann for President campaign.  Palin should promise Bachmann to make her RNC Chair if Bachmann drops out and endorses her when she gets in.

Once again, if Palin runs, every Democrat should register as a Republican (if necessary) and vote for Palin in GOP caucuses and primaries.  Her nomination is Obama's best hope at re-election and even if she were to somehow win in November 2012, the world will most likely come to an end a month later, so she probably won't be inaugurated anyway.

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by: Bertin Lefkovic @ Wed Oct 05, 2011 at 04:11:16 AM UTC

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Or... (0.00 / 0)

Maybe we will have another round of whether Christie's "no" really meant "no" this time in a month or so.

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by: the_promised_land @ Wed Oct 05, 2011 at 11:03:13 AM UTC

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Oh, this is SO unkind. (0.00 / 0)

From Buzzfeed:

Chris Christie's Presidential Announcement (with Cats).

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

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by: Rosi Efthim @ Tue Oct 04, 2011 at 22:45:50 PM UTC

NON-presidential (0.00 / 0)

Picking him as a VP candidate will show the desperation of the GOP. He has the skills of a rhino and GOD help us if he were to be sent abroad to advocate for America.

Paul Betzler

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by: defendcom @ Thu Oct 06, 2011 at 10:48:57 AM UTC