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New Jersey's Obama Wannabe

Chris Christie rode to victory in New Jersey by grabbing the president's change mantra. Lee Siegel on the GOP governor-elect's audacity of hope.

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The Wrong One won in New Jersey Tuesday. He did it through the audacity of hope that things could change, the belief that the era of business-as-usual was over, the claim that the arrogance and mistakes of his predecessor had brought the state to the brink of economic collapse.

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