Tom Wilson

PublicMind of FDU has a new poll out today.  It shows Barack Obama leading John McCain 47-41 with 11% unsure and 2% backing neither candidate.  This represents a "tightening" of the race from their last poll in June when Obama led McCain 49-33.  However, as I noted yesterday:

As of August 13, McCain was trailing by ten points in New Jersey - and new voters are always under represented in polling.  By way of comparison, Tom Kean, Jr was slightly ahead of Sen. Robert Menendez around this time in 2006.  Forrester was down by only four points in 2005.  And Forrester was actually four points ahead of Robert Torricelli in 2002.

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Denial, apparently, is the river upon whose banks the NJ GOP has set up shop.  

"The phoenix is rising," said state Republican chairman Tom Wilson. "Right now, I would suggest that people in New Jersey are not embracing Democratic ideas. They're rejecting the Democrats and their policies."

Nutjob Fever is apparently spreading, too:

"There is an absolute feeling that our party has an extraordinary amount of energy right now, in New Jersey specifically," state Sen. Bill Baroni (R-Mercer), the chairman of McCain's campaign in the Garden State and the delegation leader. "We feel very good. The big question in politics is who's got the momentum. We do. There's an old line: would you rather be us or them? Well, I'd rather be us."

Reality tells a different story.  Two years ago, New Jersey Democrats had 260,066 more voters registered than the NJ GOP.  Now that advantage has grown to 652,210.  

Let me put that into context for you.

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Apparently the Democrats pointed out the difference in the racial makeup of those in attendance between the Democratic and Republican conventions prompting this beauty from Tom Wilson:

"When you have a quota system, it guarantees the result you saw in Denver," Wilson shot back. "Look, you have one million Republicans in New Jersey, and 52 New Jerseyans sitting on the floor, representing them. These 52 people are there day in and day out doing the hardcore party activism.

"Our hardcore party activists are predominantly middle class, white New Jersey," Wilson added.

That's right, because there's no one from NJ in the middle class who isn't white.  Welcome to your NJ GOP, where the hardcore party activism comes solely from those white middle class people.

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