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...period of recovery. The Politico reports that the White House sent senior adviser David Axelrod and political director Patrick Gaspard to New Jersey in August, to express the White House's concerns about the race. One Corzine aide said...

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Axelrod played down the impact of Tuesday's gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, where Democrats suffered crushing defeats, saying, "Jersey and in Virginia were really state races very much focused on state issues." But the...

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...yet his point was right: McDonnell knew where the votes were. So did Christie, who capitalized on a deep, personal disaffection with incumbent New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. Christie, like McDonnell, managed in reverse the excite-the-base,...

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...the "only national race of consequence." Axelrod told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey were "impacted by state issues" and that they were not national races. He said the results of those races should...

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...race in New York's 23rd district the "only national race of consequence." CNN: Kaine downplays Democratic losses in Virginia and New Jersey Assessing the national political landscape on the morning after his party lost two...

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...David Axelrod in the White House and others. BARBOUR: Well, look at the New Jersey governor's race, where we had a conservative Republican mayor run against a moderate Republican, Chris Christie. Chris Christie is a moderate, was attacked as...

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...but that 2010 will be. "You have the president going into New Jersey four times, and you're going to then sit back after we kick your butt and say, 'Well, no, this had nothing to do with the president? ' Well why was he there? " Steele...

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When White House officials, including Axelrod and political director Patrick Gaspard, traveled to New Jersey to express their concern in early August, Corzine argued that his campaign had a plausible strategy to turn the race around. "We...

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And it was encouraging for us. TAPPER: President Obama went to Virginia, he told Virginians vote for Creigh Deeds, he went to New Jersey, told New Jerseyians vote for Jon Corzine… Why didn't people turn out? AXELROD: Well first of all,...

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