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We’re watching the Obama-Corzine rally live. See it here.

A few more thoughts on this race. I said a few weeks ago that I had the sense that Christie did not know how or have a plan for closing the deal on this race. The race is still basically tied. So it’s not like Christie is out of it by any means. But the final weeks of a campaign is often where you really see what each candidate is made of. And beside falling in the polls (and since Corzine can’t seem to get much above 40%, it really is a matter of Christie falling) almost everything Christie has done over the last couple weeks seems aimed at not only losing the race but zeroing out his own personal dignity in advance of election day. It really does seem like all Christie had going for him in this race was Jon Corzine’s unpopularity. And given how unpopular Corzine is, that ain’t nuthin. But the unpopularity of the other guy is seldom really sufficient if that’s literally all you have.

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