New poll of New Jersey governor’s race: Corzine 43%, Christie 38%.
You can see in Pollster.com‘s trendline chart that Corzine has now edged ahead of Christie for the first time since last November. Also note the yellow-green line toward the bottom. That’s third party candidate Chris Daggett. You can see pretty clearly how Corzine’s support has been a relatively flat line all along, but there’s a direct correlation between the substantial drop in Christie support and the mini-surge for Daggett: (click on image for larger version):
Late Update: I wanted to add a quick detail to this post. There have been a slew of polls out on this race over the last couple days and I expect several more before election day. But Quinnipiac, the pollster behind today’s poll, is one of the gold standard polls for New Jersey. So this is good news for Corzine, though the softness of support for Daggett and the possibility that a substantial number of his voters might switch to one of the party candidates at the last minute, makes this race very volatile and hard to predict. — jmm
Michelle Obama and Jill Biden will attend tonight’s opening game of the World Series, in order to promote support for military families. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
VIDEO: From last night on Fox, Lieberman says the public option would have to seek a government ‘bailout’ if it hit ‘hard times.’
A scene from today’s slideshow on anti-American riots in Kabul …
George W. Bush’s “Get Motivated!” speech got Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart all fired up.
Some of you missed it. But last night I did a lengthy post trying to take stock of what happened yesterday with Lieberman and other conservative senate Dems saying they might not be on board with Reid’s bill and what it means.
Lieberman: Public option is “new entitlement” and will drive up costs of private health care insurance.
More shortly.
I’m sure CNN delighted in asking Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett if Fox News is biased: “Well of course they’re biased. Of course they are.” Watch (and note that Jarrett tries to walk it back a bit).
Bill Clinton headed to New Jersey last night to do two rallies for Jon Corzine. And he managed to come up with some pretty creative metaphors to describe Corzine’s battle against Chris Christie.
Let’s start with the one about Corzine vs. the “300-pound behemoth.”