Congratulations to chris christie on his landslide victory in NJ.   normally a 5% win margin isn't considered a landslide, but he actually won by 8% when you consider that the Washington Post, New York times and other official media mouthpieces of the Obama organization published polls showing Corzine winning by 3%.  

an 8% variance would have to be considered outside the margin of error for an election poll.   therefore it wasn't an error, but some sort of deliberate manipulation to mislead the public.

and if THAT relatively unimportant poll is being gamed, then what should we conclude from WaPo and NYT polls showing Obama himself at 53% - 3% above neutral?

i withdraw the question.  I'm sure that fine organizations like the WaPo and NYT would NEVER deliberately mislead us about the presidency, even though they're subject to manipulation by the president on governor election polls.   They'd draw the line and uphold their journalistic integrity right?

Slate - thanks for pre-publishing a "slatest" op ed piece yesterday exonerating Obama from any blame for the election losses.  At least YOU showed some integrity in admitting the election debacle the democrats faced.

And by encouraging the Obama organization to pre-deny the election results as totally unrelated to their own policies and behaviors, you're encouraging them to continue those behaviors.

Guess what that implies for 2010 and 2012?

Thanks slate - the republicans appreciate your help.

(full disclosure - BA lives in maryland, is not registered to either political party, and believes Chris Christie ran a poor campaign. Poor campaigns do not portend effective leadership styles.  Good luck NJ.  And corzine: you can stop the daily videos of yourself jogging now - this election was always about having the highest taxes in the nation, and the inability to say no to more taxes - not about christie's waistline.  you have crappy political handlers too - the ones in the White House pulling your strings on campaign positions)