Menendez, Corzine’s Senate Successor, Struggles to Hold Seat - New Jersey

“If Democrats barely miss gaining control of the U.S. Senate next month, they may end up blaming New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine.

The Democrats are within striking distance of taking the Senate, pressing Republican incumbents in such states as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Missouri. In New Jersey, though, Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, appointed by Corzine to fill his own unexpired Senate term, is locked in a tight race in a state that hasn’t elected a Republican senator since 1972.”

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