Election Night big for Christie

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Election Night big for Christie
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There was little drama in many of the local
elections in Bucks County as well the major
election race closest to us in New Jersey. But
this election was important more for what it
might say about the next presidential contest in
three years. In his re-election victory speech
Tuesday night, New Jersey's blunt talking
governor, Chris Christie has become a serious
contender for the 2016 GOP presidential
nomination. With Christie's re-election campaign
seen as a tuneup or stepping stone for that
probable White House bid, a big victory over his
Democratic challenger Barbara Buono, was needed.
And Christie came though, grabbing 60 of the
vote, at last check. Another question heading
into Election Day 2013 was how Christie would
perform with voters who tend to cast ballots for
Democrats. exit polls indicate the GOP governor
grabbing 57 of the female vote, and winning all
age groups except 18 to 29, which he narrowly
lost. Christie also won the Latino vote and took
just over a fifth of the African-American vote, a
much better performance than most Republicans in
recent elections. He also won two-thirds of
independents and just over three in 10 Democrats.
The exit polls appear to bolster Christie's case
that he's among the most electable of the
potential GOP White House hopefuls heading into
2016.
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In Other News

• Authorities have found the dead bodies of a
  Mississippi family that had been missing Atira
  Hill, Laterry Smith and Jaidon Hill, 7. The
  mother, stepfather and boy vanished last week.
  They were found overnight in a wooded area. They
  had been shot to death. The investigation is
  ongoing.
• Months after a surprise ruling from a Mexican
  judge made him a free man, U.S. authorities have
  placed a new bounty for the capture of accused
  Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero. The U.S.
  State Department says it will pay up to 5
  million for information leading to Caro
  Quintero's arrest or conviction. Caro Quintero,
  61, once leader of Mexico's now-defunct
  Guadalajara Cartel, is accused in the 1985
  kidnapping and killing of DEA agent Enrique
  "Kiki" Camarena and his pilot, Alfredo Zavala
  Avelar. He'd served 28 years of a 40-year
  sentence for the killings when a judge in
  Mexico's Jalisco state overturned his conviction
  in August.
• Sen. Rand Paul took responsibility Tuesday for
  instances of plagiarism exposed in his speeches
  and writings, saying his office has been "sloppy"
  and pledging to add footnotes to all of his
  future material. The Washington Times, a
  right-leaning newspaper, announced later Tuesday
  it will drop Paul's weekly column, saying the
  Senator failed to attribute a passage in one of
  his September columns. The passage was originally
  from Forbes.
• For a big chunk of the Cold War, the U.S. Air
  Force turned to the SR-71 Blackbird for many of
  its most important spy missions. The jet-black
  jet could fly at more than three times the speed
  of sound at altitudes of 85,000 feet, faster and
  higher than anything adversaries had to counter
  it. The last of the Blackbirds flew in 1999. Now,
  Lockheed-Martin, the maker of the SR-71, says the
  "Son of the Blackbird," the SR-72, is in the
  works, and it will be twice as fast as and way
  more lethal because it will be designed to launch
  missiles. A smaller-scale model of the SR-72
  could begin testing in five years and be in the
  air in 10. The full-scale SR-72 could be
  operational by 2030.