The problem is that New Jersey has exhusted its bench of candidates by losing consecutive elections. They have no one to put up now. The candidates that they would have to put up might be old news. Look how many times Forrester has been running. The New Jersey republicans need a new bench of candidates and maybe 2009 may be the year, but this year probably not .
Diane Allen could theoretically at least give Lautenberg some competition. Other than her, though, the bench is nonexistant. It may be possible to convince some of the congressmen now in the minority to run (especially the vulnerable Mike Ferguson), but I don't see any of them unseating Lautenberg.
