booker polls at 42%. if christie wants to be president of the united states, he can t pull a george allen and lose his race for reelection. he has to win a state that just voted for president obama by a 17-point margin. here is what chris christie knows. before he gets republicans to love him, he needs a lot of voters in new jersey to love him even more. if his recent embrace of obama didn t win him friends, it is winning him friends in the northeast. according to a poll released on tuesday. new york city voters gave christie higher marks than mayor bloomberg for handling the storm. a full 89% approved of his performance. if christie can get reelected with big numbers and popular enough to put blue states like new jersey in play, then the republican party, which is terrified by. its inability to speak to voters
before he gets republicans to love him, he needs a lot of voters in new jersey to love him even more. if his recent embrace of obama didn t win him friends, it is winning him friends in the northeast. according to a poll released on tuesday. new york city voters gave christie higher marks than mayor bloomberg for handling the storm. a full 89% approved of his performance. if christie can get reelected with big numbers and popular enough to put blue states like new jersey in play, then the republican party, which is terrified by. its inability to speak to voters beyond its base, they will be begging christie to run. begging.
crowd. it s all my fault. the analysis of the election. obama didn t win. i lost it. joining me now joy reid and lily gill valetta. joy, charles and i must have been watching the show thursday night because that s when i said that they have to figure out the way to lead the congressional republicans to some form of compromise with president obama on immigration on a dream act. something that most of the republicans can vote against it, but enough vote for it in each body so that it can be passed into law and they can get this thing off their doorstep. and joy, there s kruth hammer going beyond that and saying let s go for amnesty. this is a desperate party. but at least they are starting
imagine, marco rubio advancing such a policy on the road to 2016. it would transform the landscape. he would win the has panic vote, yes, win it. rush limbaugh who sees no reason at all to change anything in the republican view of the world is now playing defense on his own roll in the republican defeat. you believe they keep saying this is my fault. it s my fault. i m driving everybody away. i m driving the hispanics away, i m driving like christmas away, people who believe in santa claus, single women, the vagina crowd. it s all my fault. the analysis of the election. obama didn t win. i lost it. joining me now joy reid and lily gill valetta.
my favorite was not that you asked, but my favorite was saying you have a one-point plan. it showed the authority to craft reality right on live television. you can just change the way people look at it. say you just want to give a better rate for the rich. i thought he delivered the message all night long. a lot of people are saying obama didn t win by as much as romney won two weeks ago. i don t agree with that and here s why. obama didn t show up the last time, but romney, this time came across as a kind of an irritating know it all who doesn t operate well when he s challenged. and there were more sound bites in his debate. that s all for us from hardball. and from hofstra.