The Garden State Growing a Brain
(I can say that because I live here.) From Ace:
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The Kerry campaign insisted yesterday that it still considered New Jersey safe for the Democrats and had no plans to divert the candidates’ time or money from battleground states such as Pennsylvania. (Ignore us you fool, please!)
The Quinnipiac poll reflects a stark change from a month ago, when Kerry led by 10 points among registered voters in New Jersey and seemed a lock to carry the state, which has not voted Republican in a presidential election since 1988.
Like I said yesterday in a Note to Fausta: New Jersey, a bluest of the blue states, in a tie. McGreevy effect? naw. Really good employment figures? probably not. Seeing our neighbors vaporized and 736 funerals? I think so.
Besides New York, there was no state more devestated by the WTC attack than NJ: we share sports teams with New York, the Statue of Liberty, and a couple of tunnels. Now we share an unimaginable pain and the victory of discovering a new strength, of morphing into something new. Not forgetting but rather building on the pain.
Update: The Commissar has been moving states back and forth and reaches an interesting conclusion.
Update: Patterico discussed Arizona.
