Key poll takeaways from Christie victory last night: in a state where only 39% of voters have a favorable view of the GOP, his favorables are at 64%; he won the women vote, not by much, but for a Republican just to win the female vote in a blue state is a big deal, especially when you're running against a woman; and the biggest number of all - he won Latinos - again, for a Republican to do that in a blue state is a big deal - not necessarily an encouraging harbinger that reassures that the country is not with cold certainty doomed by demographics to be driven into ruin by a never ending liberal autocracy, but nice to see all the same - especially when compared to blacks who again demonstrated nothing can convince them to vote GOP. If I'm a Republican I don't even bother trying to appeal to the black vote - I mean, if they're not gonna come out for a guy like Christie, you can pretty much just write the black vote off - hell, I get the feeling most blacks would vote for an Islamist candidate before they'd go GOP.
