Chris Christie's Presidential strategy - get people who don't normally vote Republican to vote Republican

[mota bhai 2,675]

As New Jersey's Christie Campaigns, a 2016 Strategy Emerges

Governor sees outreach to nontraditional GOP voters as national model for party

By HEATHER HADDON and NEIL KING JR.

Updated Nov. 1, 2013 10:47 a.m. ET

Republican Gov. Chris Christie ... sees his campaign—and particularly his aggressive outreach to nontraditional GOP voters—as a national model for his party.

Racking up big margins among women and even winning outright among Hispanics, as polls suggest he may, would position him well in a 2016 Republican presidential field as the party continues to struggle elsewhere to widen its appeal.

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Mr. Christie's apparent crossover appeal isn't guaranteed to work in other parts of the country, where his efforts to reach out to core Democratic groups may not play as well with more conservative GOP voters.

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The governor has long tried to build support among minority voters and other constituencies—not for his future national ambitions, aides said, but to deliver a resounding victory against his Democratic opponent, state Sen. Barbara Buono.

"This is a model for the party in general," said Bill Palatucci, Mr. Christie's campaign chairman and a national GOP committeeman. "His message is that you can't come to any community and ask for them to vote for you a month before the election."

Those efforts have been on vivid display this week as he conducts a seven-day campaign bus tour through the state. On Wednesday, a stop at an ethnically Indian commercial strip brought out women in saris and dozens of business owners, who played ceremonial drums and snapped photos. On Thursday, he visited a Hispanic-owned formalwear store in Vineland, a South Jersey city that is 38% Latino and home to one of the campaign's Spanish-language outreach offices.

"This is what I feel comfortable doing, the kind of campaign I wanted to run and the kind of administration I've run," Mr. Christie said when asked Wednesday about the focus on diversity. "I'm just doing what I want to do."

The governor has already begun to amass a significant national donor base, with big GOP fundraisers like Home Depot Inc. co-founder Ken Langone firmly in his corner, according to Christie advisers.

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Some Republicans—citing examples such as Hillary Clinton, who failed to win the Democratic nomination in 2008—question whether electability itself is necessarily a winning pitch.

"The electability argument in primaries never has as much salience as a lot of people think," said Steve Bogden, a former adviser to the presidential campaign of onetime Republican candidate Jon Huntsman.

There are also questions about whether Mr. Christie could take his appeal to Democratic constituencies to the national level from New Jersey, where he has brokered deals that have earned him trust with some local Democrats.

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Mr. Christie's response to superstorm Sandy last year and his ability to work across the aisle are at the heart of his campaign.

He also has been blunt in criticizing conservatives in Washington for the fallout from the recent government shutdown.

The true hallmark of his re-election bid, though, is its focus on recruiting support from traditional Democratic constituencies. He has sparred with public-sector unions over pensions and benefits, but has split the organized-labor vote in public polls and picked up the backing of 26 labor and building-trade organizations for the election.

The campaign has put together coalitions of African-American, Asian, Jewish and Hispanic supporters.

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Mr. Christie in 2009 earned 9% of the vote among blacks and 32% among Hispanics, according to exit polls. Surveys now show him running more or less even among Hispanics and getting as much as a third of the black vote.

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His Hispanic outreach effort is the most elaborate, with a full-time state director and delegates in each of the state's 21 counties. Mr. Christie is an unlikely magnet for Latino voters. He upset some Hispanic leaders when he vetoed legislation raising the minimum wage this year.

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Some Latino leaders say they like the governor's blunt style and support his stances on taxes, school vouchers and immigration reform. He surprised a Hispanic audience last month when said he would back allowing undocumented college students to pay in-state tuition rates.

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[Ban Hammer 13,408]

[mota bhai 2,675]

Yeah. It's not particularly brilliant, nor do I think it will work.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

The problem is their ideology. If they were to change this they could get more votes. Just because you put one or two black or Hispanic people in your campaign group does not mean your thought process has changed.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The Tea Party and other red meat Republicans outside NJ won't stand for it. Reaching out to voters who don't normally vote Republican means betrayal to that base. They'll fight him with everything they got.

[Ban Hammer 13,408]

Yeah. It's not particularly brilliant, nor do I think it will work.

with brilliant thinking like christie's, the republican party is doomed.

[mota bhai 2,675]

with brilliant thinking like christie's, the republican party is doomed.

I think this strategy is really his only possible strategy. He can't win the Tea Party core of primary voters. The only other path left is through voters who don't normally vote Republican but might.

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[Janelle2002 3,865]

I think this strategy is really his only possible strategy. He can't win the Tea Party core of primary voters. The only other path left is through voters who don't normally vote Republican but might.

He's screwed unless he can come up with something better than, "see Paul used to have a black girlfriend." This was the worst failed attempt I have seen at trying to get black votes.

[mota bhai 2,675]

He's screwed unless he can come up with something better than, "see Paul used to have a black girlfriend." This was the worst failed attempt I have seen at trying to get black votes.

Black votes? He doesn't really need black votes. Is the black vote even remotely persuadable? No. The real persuadables are in the Hispanic and Asian communities. And there are plenty of upscale whites who voted for Obama in 08 and 12 who could be persuaded as well.

There's a coalition waiting to be built there, if the Republican right-wing can stand aside and allow it.

But no, black people won't be part of it.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Black votes? He doesn't really need black votes. Is the black vote even remotely persuadable? No. The real persuadables are in the Hispanic and Asian communities. And there are plenty of upscale whites who voted for Obama in 08 and 12 who could be persuaded as well.

There's a coalition waiting to be built there, if the Republican right-wing can stand aside and allow it.

But no, black people won't be part of it.

I am sure this group of voters will not be very important. But there is usually a last minute pitch done by Republicans to get the black votes when they are losing.

There was another commercial once about Lincoln freed the slaves so vote Republican. Pay attention once the Republicans start losing in 2016.

[mota bhai 2,675]

I am sure this group of voters will not be very important. But there is usually a last minute pitch done by Republicans to get the black votes when they are losing.

There was another commercial once about Lincoln freed the slaves so vote Republican. Pay attention once the Republicans start losing in 2016.

Yeah, they try to go from 2% to 4% with the AA vote. Black people simply aren't in play. They're electorally irrelevant much in the same way the electoral college system renders every voter in California and Oklahoma irrelevant in a Presidential election.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Black people would love to have someone who has their best interest at heart. The only reason the republicans keep losing them is because they either don't want to reach out to us or when they do, they start insulting us right away.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Black people would love to have someone who has their best interest at heart. The only reason the republicans keep losing them is because they either don't want to reach out to us or when they do, they start insulting us right away.

Yes because voting for Liberal Democrats all this years has worked out so well for Black people, Republicans led them out of slavery and damn if dems have not just about led them back into it

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Yes because voting for Liberal Democrats all this years has worked out so well for Black people, Republicans led them out of slavery and damn if dems have not just about led them back into it

I would love to vote republican. Just give me a solid week of no GOP calling us the N-word, hispanics the s-word or w-word, leaving gays alone. I would happily jump ship.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Yes because voting for Liberal Democrats all this years has worked out so well for Black people, Republicans led them out of slavery and damn if dems have not just about led them back into it

You mean the same people who had slaves? Like our lovely Thomas Jefferson, Mr. Democratic Republican who kept a nice little slave on the side to father his children while he still had kids with his wife.

Okay. Lincoln so called fought for slaves although he had slaves? The Emancipation Proclamation was a strategy to force rebellious Southern states to join the North it had nothing to do with freeing slaves . Southern states that were not rebellious got to keep their slaves. This move was done to attempt to economically weaken the Southern States. Most of the freedoms of slaves took place because they needed these fighters in the war, not because they thought of them as equal human beings.

To be honest, I don't trust either side.

2016 my vote is going to the Green Chili Pepper Party of the Liberal, Conservative, South Northern Party. I like this group.