NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- New Jersey State Senate President Dick Codey says it's understandable that, this summer, Gov. Jon Corzine was having a "to hell with this" moment.
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Corzine had told the White House he was re-considering his run for re-election. A White House official, Codey tells The Star-Ledger, shared internal polling data, showing Codey with a double-digit lead over Chris Christie.
That is "...because he stepped in, served as acting governor, has a personality that has worked very well in communicating with voters and so forth, he's just well-known and quite popular, " says Ruth Mandel of the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll.
Whether it would've changed the outcome if Codey had jumped in on a Corzine exit comes down to speculation, says Mandel.
Codey says he took the conversation to Corzine, saying "if you're in, i'm with you," after which he says the calls from the White House stopped.
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