What Is Chris Christie Doing Right?

What Is Chris Christie Doing Right?
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks during a discussioni of the 21st annual Conference on Volunteering and Service, convened by Point of Light, June 21, 2013 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. According to the welcome letter from Points of Light CEO Michelle Nunn, the conference focused 'on the power of service to bridge differences and bring people together - across race, income, politics, religion, age and geography - to help one another.' (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks during a discussioni of the 21st annual Conference on Volunteering and Service, convened by Point of Light, June 21, 2013 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. According to the welcome letter from Points of Light CEO Michelle Nunn, the conference focused 'on the power of service to bridge differences and bring people together - across race, income, politics, religion, age and geography - to help one another.' (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

In New Jersey, charisma is a blunt instrument. Even in its most lyrical incarnations—in Philip Roth’s perception, or Bruce Springsteen’s—the state is the site of a fevered, haywire sexuality, a place where all of the most full-blooded human instincts run loose: aggression and vanity; a big hearted, desperate romantic yearning; a carnal materialism.

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