2009 New Jersey Governor's Race

[Ronnie]

Why does www.TimKaine.com redirect to Lonegan's campaign website?

LOL, amazing.

How do people discover this crap?

[Lunar]

Why does www.TimKaine.com redirect to Lonegan's campaign website?

As someone who's actually been tasked with doing this, it's a basic online strategy buy up domain names you suspect your opponents will register.  GoDaddy = Aaataaaaaack

BUT, I don't get why one would use Tim Kaine, that seems dumb.  Also, anyone who bought that domain name could create a simple redirect, so it could be that whoever owns that is a Lonegan fan.

[Zarn]

Why does www.TimKaine.com redirect to Lonegan's campaign website?

As someone who's actually been tasked with doing this, it's a basic online strategy buy up domain names you suspect your opponents will register.  GoDaddy = Aaataaaaaack

BUT, I don't get why one would use Tim Kaine, that seems dumb.  Also, anyone who bought that domain name could create a simple redirect, so it could be that whoever owns that is a Lonegan fan.

Lonegan, his campaign team, and his supporters never make any sense, so why question it, now?

[Lunar]

Why does www.TimKaine.com redirect to Lonegan's campaign website?

As someone who's actually been tasked with doing this, it's a basic online strategy buy up domain names you suspect your opponents will register.  GoDaddy = Aaataaaaaack

BUT, I don't get why one would use Tim Kaine, that seems dumb.  Also, anyone who bought that domain name could create a simple redirect, so it could be that whoever owns that is a Lonegan fan.

Lonegan, his campaign team, and his supporters never make any sense, so why question it, now?

Well, it was created in 2001.

Registrant:
lunar deletes
P.O. Box 397
Chelsea, Alabama 35043
United States

Registered through: MoreInformation.NET (An Optimus Partner)
Domain Name: TIMKAINE.COM
Created on: 18-Apr-01
Expires on: 18-Apr-10
Last Updated on: 13-Apr-09

[Zarn]

Why does www.TimKaine.com redirect to Lonegan's campaign website?

As someone who's actually been tasked with doing this, it's a basic online strategy buy up domain names you suspect your opponents will register.  GoDaddy = Aaataaaaaack

BUT, I don't get why one would use Tim Kaine, that seems dumb.  Also, anyone who bought that domain name could create a simple redirect, so it could be that whoever owns that is a Lonegan fan.

Lonegan, his campaign team, and his supporters never make any sense, so why question it, now?

Well, it was created in 2001.

Registrant:
lunar deletes
P.O. Box 397
Chelsea, Alabama 35043
United States

Registered through: MoreInformation.NET (An Optimus Partner)
Domain Name: TIMKAINE.COM
Created on: 18-Apr-01
Expires on: 18-Apr-10
Last Updated on: 13-Apr-09

Maybe a socon who uses Tim Kaine's name to get out support for socons. Strange that it is 2001.

[Nhoj]

maybe its actually Tim Kaine trying to get lonegan to win the primary so corzine has a better chance of winning in the general. of course that's kinda ridiculous but not really anymore than a lonegan supporter doing it.

[Lief 🗽]

Tim Kaine really isn't that uncommon of a name... probably just some dude who's also named Tim Kaine who is a fan of this Lonegan character.

[Lunar]

Tim Kaine really isn't that uncommon of a name... probably just some dude who's also named Tim Kaine who is a fan of this Lonegan character.

My prediction is that this guy registered sites that he predicted might be important later on -- Tim Kaine was running for Lt. Governor in 2001.  From there, he can either redirect to conservatives he prefers or sell the domain names back for a profit.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Here's your answer:

http://rothenbergpoliticalreport.blogspot.com/2008/07/timkainecom-owned-by-conservative.html

[Rowan]

Here's a link to the first debate:

http://www.njn.net/newspublicaffairs/coverage/09governorrace/debate1.html

[Eraserhead]

Why does www.TimKaine.com redirect to Lonegan's campaign website?

That's hilarious!

[cinyc]

Rasmussen polled the Republican Primary yesterday:

Chris Christie 39%
Steve Lonegan 29%
Some Other Candidate 3%
Not Sure 29%

I also saw my first Lonegan ad on NYC TV tonight - trying to tie Christie and Corzine together for supporting progressive taxation (under which half the people subsidize the other half, according to the ad) while touting Lonegan's flat tax proposal.

[Tender Branson]

Rasmussen General Election:

Christie (R): 47%
Corzine (D): 38%

Lonegan (R): 42%
Corzine (D): 41%

Favorable Ratings:

Christie: 51% favorable, 32% unfavorable
Lonegan: 43% favorable, 32% unfavorable
Corzine: 44% favorable, 53% unfavorable

Generally speaking do you prefer a Democrat or a Republican as the governor of New Jersey?

48% Democrat
34% Republican

This telephone survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports May 12, 2009. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_2009/new_jersey/election_2009_new_jersey_governor

[Keystone Phil]

LOL @ Lonegan leading Corzine.

The Dem vs. Republican poll is the most telling, of course. Same old New Jersey...

[Zarn]

Saw that one earlier. Figured someone else would post it. lol

I figured the 15 spread last time was a little high, but at least we know now that New Jersians are actually serious about dumping Corzine.

[Linus Van Pelt]

Rasmussen General Election:

Lonegan (R): 42%
Corzine (D): 41%

Ayah. I mean, many people probably don't know much about Lonegan, but still...

[Lief 🗽]

Corzine's creeping up...

[Zarn]

Corzine's creeping up...

LOL

Lief is holding his hoped high. Poor Lief.

[Rowan]

Ron Paul endorses Lonegan.

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/93031

[Zarn]

Poor Lonegan.

[Rowan]

I'm going to say this now, if Lonegan wins the nomination, I am done with the GOP.

[Keystone Phil]

I'm going to say this now, if Lonegan wins the nomination, I am done with the GOP.

Uh, why? I'll never understand how suddenly people are not members of their respective party just because their candidate loses a primary/the person they dislike wins.

If you're hinging you're party registration on a single primary, you're not really a member of that party anyway. That being said, you never really were a Republican anyway (you told me you only registered that way recently for this primary).

I think you mean you're done with the NJ GOP and I wouldn't blame you. If I was an NJ Republican and that happened, I wouldn't leave the party but I'd distance myself when it comes to involvement. Letting that joke win would be an absolute disgrace.

[Zarn]

I'm actually halfway Republican and halfway Libertarian. I've been that way since 2005.

A Lonegan primary win could put me over into the Libertarian Party.

[Keystone Phil]

I'm actually halfway Republican and halfway Libertarian. I've been that way since 2005.

A Lonegan primary win could put me over into the Libertarian Party.

Uh...why?

Why would Lonegan - a libertarian Republican - winning the GOP primary push you - a libertarian - away from the GOP to the Libertarian party?

[Lunar]

If he's going to be voting for irrelevant third parties like Lonegan he might as well just vote for the Libertarian candidate.