Dispatches: It was all about Jersey

Dispatches is up — on the election. The column already has generated a comment, disagreement from the right (from someone calling himself MotherRedDog).

And after all of that spin………Obama did campaign for him often and yes the
money was big, and 25 percent of the voters said it WAS a referendum on
Obama…..spinning until you puke won’t change these facts.

I am willing to admit that this is not a good thing for the Obama administration, but to think that 25 percent of voters — not sure where the number comes from, but it’s what he offers — means much is absurd. That is fewer than voted for McCain last time.

In fact, fewer people voted for Chris Christie on Tuesday than voted for John McCain last year. The issue was turnout — a complete lack of faith in the incumbent, mostly deserved, suppressing turnout in urban areas at a time when suburban Democrats bailed on the party.

The evidence just doesn’t support the anti-Obama theory, at least not in New Jersey, where the president continues to poll well.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

One thought on “Dispatches: It was all about Jersey”

  1. New Jerseyites have been complaining about property taxes for generations, no matter who is in office. We want good schools but we don't want to pay for them. Rich and affluent school districts have good schools and high property taxes. Princeton schools have a very good and well deserved reputation for excellence, for example. So why do they have to support these cockamamie charter schools? Why should these charter schools get tax payer money when their results are no better than regular public schools? Oh yeah, they play into the whole anti-union movement. The right wing won't be happy until they destroy all unions in this country. Charter schools and vouchers are not about helping kids but about destroying the unions. There might be one or two outstanding charter or \”voucher-schools\” but over all they are doing no better than public schools and in many cases worse. Guess what, lots of public schools are doing very well, too. Right wingers hate public schools and unions. They won't be happy until they have privatized our schools and made them for-profit entities.Christie will do nothing about the debt, he will play mathematical games, maybe lower taxes in one area only to have taxes rise in other areas, a kind of shell game. Unless he cuts services to needy folks but then he will have to deal with the punch back and outrage. Blacks and minorities voted overwhelmingly for Corzine. The GOP is no friend to the poor and minorities. There is not one black GOP US senator or US representative in the whole Congress. That speaks volumes.

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