Now I don't pretend to be fully up-to-speed on NJ politics, but it seems to me that Forrester represents the Republicans' best chance to take back the State House. Forrester is a wealthy Mercer county businessman with a lot of name recognition. Of course it's hard not to recognize the name when you consider the number of ads for him that play on the radio these days.

Forrester's basic platform is to reform NJ's crushing property tax code, cut State spending and wrest control of NJ from the corrupt Democrat machine. He has the personal financial resources to go head to head with Corzine and he's a "moderate" on social issues.

If Forrester can capitalize on voter's dissatisfaction with the corruption in Trenton, he has a chance. Although it's probably Corzine's race to lose. New Jersey is one of the Bluest of the Blue States and frankly a Republican can't win Statewide running simply as a conservative, because the voters, by and large, are not. In any case it should make for an interesting race.

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