Daggett can’t win. So why is he in this?

Posted on 25 October 2009

I continue to struggle to understand the candidacy of Chris Daggett. He is an independent candidate for governor and he is polling between 5-17 percent depending on whose poll you are looking at. Of course, I will likely get a comment on this about how he is charging and is going to win the race (and the email of the commenter will be a link to the Daggett campaign). But we are now late in the race and he has no chance of winning. So why does he continue?

Does he have aspirations to run for another office sometime in the future? Not sure. This isn’t like the national stage where a big run here will equite to a book and speaking tour. And increased awareness. But it doesn’t make sense here. The minute he loses in November he is once again a nobody except among party faithful – oops, he represents no political party so that logic is out. Run for something else? Democrats aren’t going to stick to him long and Republicans will brand him toxic for splitting the anti-Corzine vote. No future in that either.

So what is left? The nagging feeling I keep getting is that his candidacy only serves to help one person and one person only. Jon Corzine. To that end, I tried to review Daggett’s election filings. They can be accessed here. The only obvious trend I was able to take from an analysis of his donors was that they significantly trend toward one industry – financial services. I checked Christie’s donors to see if I could get the same trend however I didn’t see the same thing there. Another thing concerned me about Daggett’s donors. They haven’t increased as his awareness has increased. As a matter of fact, his big ticket donors seem to have dried up. Contribution limits or something else?

Do I believe that Corzine has set up Daggett as a stalking horse in this race? I doubt it. But would I accept the notion that Corzine’s people arranged for a third party candidate to receive enough funding to damage his opponent? You bet.

Category: Chris Daggett, Christopher Christie, Corzine, Democrat Curruption

2 responses to Daggett can’t win. So why is he in this?

Laura says:

October 26, 2009 at 11:17 am

Call me crazy, but does it occur to you that maybe he just legitimately wants to be governor because he thinks he'd do a better job than the other candidates?

Why does he have to have an ulterior motive? Just the fact that you assume he must have one proves how sorely his candidacy is needed.

Dennis says:

October 27, 2009 at 8:49 am

Laura

I understand that he may WANT to be governor. I may want to be our senator from NJ but that isn't going to happen. Following your logic, my seven year old would be head coach of the Phillies.

Daggett's candidacy serves only to extract votes from Chris Christie. He says lots of nice things about Corzine while claiming he can do a better job. And as to ulterior motives, you can use all of the disconnected logic you would like (my questioning the possibility of a candidates ulterior motives has no logical connection to the citizens of New Jersey's "need" to have said candidate in the race) my opinion on this represents what I have observed from this candidate and the race as a whole.

NJ Tax Revolution

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