"One unmistakable  take away, Chris Christy now has the premier brand in Republican politics. Look at this map. New Jersey is known as a reliably blue state in presidential politics. Well, in sweeping to landslide reelection, Chris Christy turned almost the entire map red. Electability will be his argument now as he makes the case. He is a strong Republican contender for 2016 in the presidential race. Chris Christy can argue: I won the women`s vote, I won the men`s vote. No gender gap for me. He will also argue powerfully that not only did he carry the white vote big but among African-Americans, even though his Democratic challenge who won the African American vote, Chris Christie, 21% of the African-American vote, more than double his take from four years ago. Compared that to Mitt Romney and compare that to John McCain, Chris Christie will say he can broaden the Republican base. Even more importantly, in making that argument, the electability argument, Chris Christie actually carrying the Latino vote in the state of New Jersey with the slight majority there. Again, think about Nevada, think about New Mexico, think about Florida, other presidential battleground states Latinos are critical constituency. Chris Christie will make the case I`m the more electable Republican.

 

If there is a dent in the elect ability argument, it is this, in his home state as he won a sweeping reelection voters will ask: what if you had Hillary Clinton versus Chris Christy in 2016? Well, Hillary Clinton carrying a narrow victory over Chris Christy. A bit of a dent in the elect ability argument. With that poll number ..."

 

After the states we covered in our first story, the ones in today`s Roll Call might look a little familiar. New Jersey, the Jackson Memorial High Jaguars put the Garden State on today`s map, Virginia.  How about the Wolverines from W. High in P., Virginia. And New York, specifically, the city of Hamburg and the Hamburg High Bulldogs. Thanks for watching, everybody. Every month, the city of Greece, New York, holds a public board meeting to talk about the town's government. Since 1999, those meetings have started with the prayer.  Now, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether that policy is unconstitutional. Yesterday, the court's nine justices heard arguments about whether or not the board meeting prayers violate the establishment clause. That`s the part of the First Amendment that says, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. In other words, government won't endorse a specific religion. City officials in Greece say they aren't. They say they have invited people from a wide variety of faiths to offer invocations but the plaintiffs in this case argue that the prayers at city board meetings have been overwhelmingly Christian. During yesterday's Supreme Court hearing, some justices discuss whether lawmakers in courts should advise faith on what to say, what language is considered religious. The Supreme Court's ruling is expected by early next summer.