
Actually I called it twice: October 4th and November 2.
If only I could pick the games in the football pool like this. I even got the over/under by naming Norcross (who holds the purse strings of the NJDSC).
Imagine having a candidate so weak you have to bankroll a third party "independent" candidate. But if you want to do this again I have some pointers for you:
- Don't have him just attack the other candidate without having a platform of his own, it is so obvious the most myoptic and clueless of voters could see it.
- Don't have your usual sycophantic supporters, the media outlets, endorse your trojan horse candidate over your real one.
- When conducting push polls, don't hyperinflate the trojan horse's rating. Rasmussen had him at 11 max, two weeks ago, so creating the Eagleton/Star Ledger poll was farcical.
- But the most important thing for Democrats (or Republicans) who plan on running a trojan horse campaign again is simply this: DON'T!
Not only is it disingenuous, you now have given fodder for the Republicans in 2010, which includes every Congressional District, to use in their campaign. Additionally you risk alienating Democrat party donors who would rather have seen their money going to support their own candidate, not the "Independent" candidate.
If you want to win why not try running a candidate that will win, instead of having to create the illusion of a viable third party candidate designed solely to draw the "anybody but Corzine" vote away from Christie?
Of course the worst part about this whole affair is that any future third party candidate will be under additional scrutiny and accused of being a trojan horse whether it is true or not. And that truly sucks as the hold the Democrats and GOP have over politics warrants RICO charges.
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