Last-Ditch Push in New Jersey Race

The independent candidate, Christopher J. Daggett, was on his own bus tour Sunday, greeting Jet fans tailgating at Giants Stadium in the morning, military veterans at a fairgrounds in rural Sussex business Inflatable Tent
County, and Yankee fans at sports bars in Somerset County and Morristown.

While Mr. Corzine warned voters that Mr. Christie had called pre-school education “babysitting” and had proposed bare-bones health insurance policies without mandatory mammograms, autism screenings and 48-hour hospital maternity stays, Mr. Obama argued Mr. Christie was pretending that the state’s economic problems were an exception when Mr. Christie’s own brand of politics was to blame for the nation’s financial woes.

“Listening to Jon’s opponent, you’d think New Jersey was the only state going through a tough time right now,” Mr. Obama said. “I have something to report: we have the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. By the way, that didn’t start under Jon’s watch, that didn’t start on my watch.”

He added: “This crisis that we are getting ourselves out of came about of because of the same theories, the same lax regulation, the same trickle-down economics, that the other guy’s party has been peddling for years.”
Getting out the vote was all that still mattered as the final weekend of this bitter campaign unfolded. As Mr. Obama rallied crowds in heavily Democratic Camden and Newark – cities where Mr. Corzine, who has struggled to energize inner-city residents, desperately needs to pile up huge margins – his Republican rival, Chris Christie, barnstormed in pivotal, populous Bergen County wholesale Inflatable Tunnel
and in other Republican strongholds like Morristown and Toms River.

“When it comes to Jon Corzine just remember that 10 years ago the people who knew him best, his old partners at Goldman Sachs, fired him,” Mr. Christie said on the historic Morristown green. “And we’re going to do the same thing in the next 48 hours.”

Mr. Christie said surveys showed he had the momentum, but added: “We need to get to the polls each and every person who is sick and tired of Corzine.”