Is it that republicans happen to have one political figure that seems reasonable compared to all the other lunatics in the Republican party what makes Christie seems reasonable? Is the rarity of a person like Christie in the republican party enough reason to support him? If so, compared to what? We've made this mistake many times before? Hillary is only leading Christie by one point. Why? why? Don't do it again.
After the election of JFK, and LBJ, Democrats had a chance to deny the presidency to another Republican president for the next 44 years. But somehow the majority of voters including a lot of wavering Democrats, saw something good in Nixon and we didn't get rid of him and Ford until 1976 and after they did a lot of damage to the country. Then we elected Jimmy Carter and the moderate Democrats ( Reagan Democrats) fell for the propaganda and decided they saw something in the great communicator. He kissed a lot of corporate behinds and set us on the path to the destruction of the middleclass. Than George Hubert Bush, i can't remember anything he did positive. But he messed up too.
Finally, these two term and one term republicans had screwed up so badly, we elected Bill Clinton with the help of Ross Perot. Clinton would have lost if not for him.
2000, the election was stolen, no Democrats at fault here. But after 2 terms of howdy doody, very few Democratic voters wavered. He was that bad and we elected Obama, twice.
Now i see Chris Christie with a high favorable rating somewhere in the 60% projectile. Has to be a lot of Democrats included in those polls. Question, when will we learn? What has Christie done other than piss off the republican tea party base by shaking Obama's hand? Have republicans sank so low and become so draconian, that the small gesture of one of them shaking Obama's hand when his city is in need of storm relief, is some kind of milestone that makes Democrats view him favorably? I don't see anything else he's done. Do you expect him to govern from the center, or follow the wishes of the republican lunatic base? Haven't we been here before? So why chance a republican who have a history of being screw ups 100% of the time? Christie is already governing like a republican. You want to vote for a person who believe in puttiing civil rights to a referendum?
Remember, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Maine etc. Don't make the same mistake.