Republican Chris Christie is absorbing yet another opposition research hit today in the New Jersey Governor race.

"Listen, I plead guilty to having raised money for Governor George W. Bush because I thought he was the best person to be President of the United States. And I did it in a completely appropriate fashion and enthusiastically for the President. And there's no mystery to the fact that I was appointed to this job because, in part, I had a relationship with the President of the United States"

"Anybody who receives a political appointment -- I am a political appointee -- there's going to be some measure of politics involved with that appointment."

The more New Jersey voters recognize that Christie is not a nonpartisan good government type but rather a fierce partisan who has, at the least, taken some highly questionable actions with regards to his previous office, the less they like him. And with pre-election polling in the Garden State traditionally and notoriously overstating the strength of Republican candidates, this race continues to look more and more winnable for Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine.