Democrats were meant to take heart from a poll released earlier this year showing that Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, could be beaten by the right opponent. But the poll (conducted by Democratic firm Public Policy Polling) was not exactly a repudiation of Christie's policies. The one Democrat who could beat him: Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey's deeply distressed largest city, who happens to agree with much of the Christie program.
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