- NAACP: Jersey City Deputy Mayor Kabili Tayari was re-elected as president of the Jersey City NAACP branch Wednesday.

- Subway Extension into HudCo: Local lawmakers are giving a thumbs up to NYC’s preliminary plans to extend the 7 subway line into Hoboken and Secaucus. And as the Times points out, the Jersey City resident Steve Lanset had the same idea about five years ago; he even created the website SubwaytoSecaucus.com. Meanwhile, the Record notes that the proposal would not provide the transfer-free ride into New York that most North Jersey commuters would have gotten with the ARC tunnel project.

- Man Dies from Fire Injuries: The man who ran back into the burning building he owns on Clendenny Avenue last week has died.

Today’s Best Bets:

- It’s a great evening for local film buffs, with three screenings to choose from. The documentary War Against the Weak has a free screening at NJCU (7 pm; for more on the film, check out our preview discussion with the director); the action/comedy/zombie feature Death of the Dead will be shown at Fete Films’ latest gathering at the Paul Vincent Gallery just over the line in Hoboken (7 pm); and The Warehouse hosts a free screening of Synecdoche, New York (7 pm).

But if film’s not your thing, there’s still plenty going on. A reception featuring work from NEW cover artist Andrew Blaize Bovasso will be in Hamilton Square’s lobby (6 pm), the actor/activist Edward James Olmos will speak at Hudson County Community College (6 pm), and the Attic Ensemble gets its final weekend of Les Liaisons Dangereuses rolling with an 8 pm performance at Barrow Mansion.

For live music, you can check out saxophonist Allen Won, who will be performing for free at NJCU as part of the university’s Great Performers Series (7:30 pm); or swing by Bar Majestic for a free show featuring The Micks and DEViTO! (8 pm).

And Global Entrepreneurship Week continues in full swing today, with the main events being two evening fundraisers. The International Institute of New Jersey hosts a wine tasting and networking fundraiser at the Loew’s Theater (6 pm); while the group that puts the entire week together, Rising Tide Capital, hosts a “friend-raiser” at The Merchant featuring Oprah’s Big Give winner Stephen Paletta and live music from Kelly St. Patrick (7 pm).

In Statewide News:

- Municipal Convention: Not surprisingly, municipal officials gathered in Atlantic City this week for the League of Municipalities convention are focused on cost-cutting and shared services. MORE: Former governors discuss Gov. Christie’s first year in office at the convention.

- Superintendent Pay Cap: The state can’t rush the process and impose a new salary cap on superintendents before formal regulations are adopted, according to the lobbying group representing the schools chiefs.

- Christie Filing Against Offshore Natural Gas Pipeline: The Christie administration is backing up its opposition to a liquefied natural gas facility 16 miles off the New Jersey coast by seeking to intervene in the case before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; local activists in Jersey City are pressuring the administration to do the same thing here once Spectra Energy files its formal plans for a natural gas pipeline extension.

- Gift Card Plan Halted: A federal judge has put a temporary stop to New Jersey’s plan to generate up to $80 million from unused gift cards, calling cards and money orders. The judge’s restraining order is in effect until a hearing can be held.

- ELEC Complaint Against Dems: The state’s election watchdog agency has slapped the state Democratic Party with a complaint, charging that it made illegal in-kind contributions to Gov. Jon Corzine’s unsuccessful re-election campaign last year.

- Anti-Smoking Efforts: New Jersey ranks 46th in the nation in funding programs to prevent kids from smoking and to help smokers quit, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society.

- Menendez Recall: New Jersey’s Supreme Court is expected to rule today on whether a citizens group has the right to try to recall Sen. Bob Menendez.

- Tax Refund $ Still Out There: The IRS says it has nearly $7 million worth of tax refund checks to give to thousands of New Jerseyans that were returned to the IRS due to mailing address errors.

- Cop2Cop Turns 10: The counseling and suicide prevention service for police officers celebrated its 10-year anniversary this week.

- Margolin Leaving Ledger: Pulitzer-winning statehouse reporter Josh Margolin is leaving the Star-Ledger to take a gig at the New York Post.

- Bus Driver’s Suit Against NJ Transit Pushed Back: The trial in the discrimination suit against NJ Transit filed by a 43-year-old Jersey City resident was set to begin August 9, but it has been postponed to January 11 of next year. The man, a NJ Transit bus driver since 1989, alleges he’s endured racial comments and slurs from other employees at NJ Transit since 2002.

- Few Local Officials Comment on NYC Mosque: The Journal set out to get Hudson County officials’ take on the “controversial” mosque being built in Lower Manhattan, and found that it was “like pulling teeth” to get any comments.

- Acting & Fencing Camp: A fencing instructor and an actor are combining their talents for two one-week camps that aim to teach youngsters the skills and nuances of both acting and fencing.

- Up in the Sky: The Air Force will be making multiple flyovers over the Hudson River next week for Air Force Week in Manhattan.

- Alleged Bank Robber Arrested: Police have arrested a 38-year-old Jersey City man charged in four recent robberies, including two at gunpoint.

Today’s Best Bets:

- Lots of good stuff going on in Jersey City today; here’s the rundown. At noon, Los Seis Del Son play a free outdoor “Jazz for Lunch” concert at Grundy Pier. At 6 pm, the Jersey City Museum opens its doors for a Artists’ Studio Tour Mixer held in conjunction with Pro Arts; check it out if you are interested in showing any work at this year’s tour, or if you just want to soak up the art scene. Also at 6 pm, the Puerto Rican Heritage Festival is putting together a free Cultural Concert at Ferris High School. The Riverview Neighborhood Association hosts its 3rd annual Movie Night Under the Stars with a free screening of O Brother, Where Art Thou? in Riverview-Fisk Park (7:30 pm). Elsewhere on screen, the Warehouse hosts a free showing of 1982′s Cain and Abel (8 pm). And last, but certainly not least, Kanibal Home hosts the last in a summer series of free concerts by classical troupe Con Vivo at 8 pm; tonight’s performance features mezzo-soprano Rebecca Comerford and Guitarist Daniel Lippel playing canciones populares.

In Statewide News:

- State Settles Fraud Case with SEC: New Jersey has settled a case in which the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged the state fraudulently misled investors in $26 billion of municipal bonds by masking underfunding of its two biggest pension plans. It was the first such SEC case to target a state.

- Offshore Wind Power: Gov. Christie is expected to sign the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act at a press conference today, jump-starting proposed plans to develop electric-generating turbines off the New Jersey coast.

- PAC Spending: A new analysis from the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission shows that “special interest” political action committees (PACs) reported spending a record $35.3 million last year, up from $25.5 in 2008. Labor unions accounted for 66 percent of those PAC donations.

It’s the Ides of March — the hour of Caesar’s reckoning. The perfect day to believe there are knives under the togas, to allege plots of political assassination.

Some eight months after his arrest in a bribery sting, this is the date that former Assemblyman/political journeyman Lou Manzo has chosen to confront his assailants. Do not be fooled by their titles or familiar faces, he tells us. For though they are robed in government garb and walk the marble halls of justice, they are conspirators who meet in secret, ready to maim for their selfish advancement.

Shall you trust your poor messenger, who professes himself to be a ghost of the man he once was, the man he might have been? Unlike his murderers’, Manzo’s quarters have no pomp to them. The curia he has called us to — the meetinghouse — is down a few rubber-laminate stairs to an office suite-cum-television studio off Central Ave.

Manzo’s face is cherubic, full of color and purpose as he greets every entrant.* He looks good, happy to be back in the forum, to have people watching him around a bay of microphones, making a righteous case for justice and civic life. Democracy, the Republic, a nation of laws — our inheritance from the free civilizations. There are those in places of power wishing to do away with these ideals, and we don’t even know it.

Manzo will explain it all. Everything he knows (or at least, everything he can share) has been packaged into a heavy two-inch briefing binder. Among its contents are:

• newspaper clippings culled since last summer.
• portions of the U.S. Code on prosecutorial misconduct.
• the Attorney General’s guidelines on the use of confidential informants.
• a 2008 House report on the politicization of the Justice Department.
• the gubernatorial campaign contributions of key figures in Chris Christie’s U.S. Attorney’s outfit, now employed through the governor’s office in Trenton.

A glossary of terms is provided.

After reading a five-minute statement, Manzo plays a video clip of Christie speaking to a group of Republicans as he campaigned for their party’s nomination last winter. The future governor says that he will win this election and that when he does, he’ll bring his deputy U.S. Attorneys along with him. Once there, he says their jobs will be to ferret out the waste and corruption that they had spent the last eight years prosecuting.

“So I told them, ‘The good news is that when we get to Trenton, we don’t have to worry about ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ anymore.’”

“I can assure,” Manzo parrots Christie’s line, “ya don’t have to worry about ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ anymore.” He says it in a way that’s less ‘Et tu?’ and more, ‘Eff you.’

Any questions?

Manzo is asked about the effect this press conference will have on his case. He notes that he might be arrested for obstruction of justice. His lawyer was nervous about it, too, but ultimately gave him the OK. Whatever the question, his answers keep returning to the pillars of his argument.

Manzo alleges that Operation Bid Rig III denied him and the other defendants of their due process of law. It was a plot designed by Christie and his underlings Ralph Marra and Michele Brown to betray the Constitution they had sworn an oath to protect. They would use their offices to grab at their next ones, Manzo alleges, by conspiring to drive a blade through the vote totals in Hudson County — “a strategically important county for Democrats to dominate statewide elections.” And he happens to have a salacious example of the Christie crew’s relentless bid to rig Gov. Jon Corzine’s defeat.

Lou recalls the day of his arrest, being locked into a holding cell with a guy who looked like a corpse — Jesus, it was the political fixer, Jack Shaw. His good friend, and he didn’t even recognize him! Lou shook the poor bastard to make sure he was OK, that he wasn’t in some sort of diabetic shock. Turns out Jack had been picked up the night before, sequestered in a hotel room in Secaucus and given a thorough grilling. Yeah, yeah, he told them some things, but he insisted that no money went to Joe Doria, the ex-Bayonne mayor and member of Corzine’s cabinet.

But look, Lou says: regardless of what Shaw told the Feds, they still raided Doria’s home. Now what does that say?

(Well, for starters, how about, ‘They didn’t entirely trust Jack Shaw?’)

Even if that much can’t be proved, Manzo charges the U.S. Attorneys with denying their guidelines, requiring the recusal of lawyers when there is a conflict of interest or possible loss of impartiality. Furthermore, their corrupt payments injected nearly $200,000 in local elections throughout the state. This is the Federal government infringing upon local elections! Affecting outcomes! Disenfranchising voters!

Arguable, but doesn’t it just show a willingness to accept money disenfranchising voters in instances where it isn’t stamped by the Feds?

His strongest point is that it was the U.S. Attorney’s office that decided to make arrests that July morning before indictments could be handed down, blunting Corzine’s message a week after President Obama made a high profile campaign visit. Then again, they could have made the arrests in, say, October.

Regardless, Manzo is no soothsayer. None of this information is new. He admits as much, pleading with the media to stop ignoring the meat of these conflicts, demanding they dub Christie’s office, ‘The Touchables.’ It’s unlikely this press conference will be the silver bullet, especially when he stands alone at the dais.

So what’s his angle?

Set aside, for the moment, the $27,500 of illegal campaign contributions for which he will stand trial. Bring it up and watch the man’s blood boil. He denies it emphatically, angrily almost. He attempts to wave a sheath of papers, but most of them fall and scatter at his feet. He holds the remaining one up high, defiantly making a point that’s hard to catch. He is, for the moment, obscured by the imagery of what has just occurred: a man, losing his grip, on his papers, on his public image.

He tries to explain why he is taking this stand now. He attempts to put himself off the record for a moment, but he might as well have turned his car down a one-way street. He draws laughter from the room full of microphones, lenses and eyeballs that he invited. The ‘off the record’ gesture might be (and probably is) pretense. It’s hard to believe Manzo doesn’t want this soliloquy played for all to hear.

Let me put it this way — and I don’t want this out there because, again, I don’t want to look like a sympathetic figure. But for all practical purposes, I was beside myself for two months. … But this is completely, absolutely aggravating to, to live a life as I’ve tried and to follow ideals and values that I’ve brought up with to be accused of such a thing — it’s the most heinous thing that could happen. And I’ve accepted it in this way: ya’know, whatever day I — ya’know, the Lord chooses to take me in this life, uhh, he takes me, but on my tombstone, the date of my death will always be July 23rd, 2009, because every future aspiration I ever had, everything I ever wanted to do again, is gone. It’s over — no matter what happens at the end of this process. So, I’ve accepted right now I’m living my purgatory. And I’m looking forward, hopefully, to meet my maker at my just reward. But … but that’s how I classify: it doesn’t matter.

Friends, reporters, Jersey Cityans, lend him your ears; he’s come to bury Lou Manzo … and slyly praise him.

In these words, this press conference is revealed. What it shows is a man, politically dead, scratching at the coffin he’s been placed in. He’s crossing his Shakespeare now, the Ghost of King Hamlet, crying out from beyond the grave, demanding vengeance for his assassins — the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Methinks he doth mourn himself too much. In Jersey City, the dead walk again.

Ever meet Gerry McCann?

*An aside: This was the first time that I was ever in the same room as Lou Manzo, but I have a small history with him. I worked for his opponent when he ran for the state Senate a few years back, and though I didn’t have a direct hand in attacking him (and attack him, we did), I was present throughout. I will also add that when my aunt passed away suddenly last year, Manzo’s insurance company sent her flowers. While completely unrelated, it has stuck with me.

- The state law requiring railroad companies to negotiate in good faith with municipalities before abandoning a property was signed by outgoing Gov. Corzine before he left office; it will impact the city’s negotiations with developer Steve Hyman over the fate of the 6th Street Embankment.

- A Jersey City Medical Center nurse who is currently working on relief efforts in Haiti says “the suffering, death and injuries I have seen will follow me forever.” Meanwhile, another strong earthquake has hit the island.

- A 20-year-old Parsippany man fell to his death Monday night from the roof of a building in the Newport area. The investigation is ongoing, but for now the death has been classified as accidental.

- A delegation of businesswomen, primarily from Hudson County, leaves for Mumbai this week to build relationships with their Indian counterparts.

- The Hudson County Community College Foundation has added two new members to its Board of Directors: Antonio Ibarria, Sr. and Lisa Epstein.

- The JCPD’s latest newsletter brings us Part Three of its “History of Jersey City and its Police” series; this one covers the time period between 1869 and 1877.

- The sister music festival to Jersey City’s All Points West, Coachella, announced its 2010 lineup yesterday; Hoboken’s Yo La Tengo is among the many bands slated to play the three-day festival in California this spring.

In statewide news:

- As one of his last acts in office Monday night, Gov. Corzine vetoed legislation that environmentalists had tagged “the Dirty Water Bill” and two other bills they argue would have weakened environmental regulation in the state.

- Republicans around the state are hoping to ride Gov. Christie’s coattails into office.

- The New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency has received more than $49 million in federal stimulus money to finance the expansion and improvement of affordable housing in New Jersey.

- Officials at the Jersey City Medical Center are seeking the public’s help to identify an 89-year-old Asian woman suffering from dementia who walked into the hospital early on Wednesday.

- NJCU students, faculty and staff react to the election of Chris Christie as New Jersey’s next governor.

- There will be a memorial hockey game to honor fallen Jersey City detective Marc Anthony DiNardo on Sunday, Dec. 13; the JCPD hockey team will take on a team of New Jersey Devils Alumni in a 3 pm match-up at Newark’s Prudential Center.

- Dislocations has a report on what it dubs the “arborcide” happening on Christopher Columbus Drive as part of that street’s widening.

- In NJCU’s Gothic Times, Jan Aguilos has a quick primer for students on the “cast of characters” that make up our beloved City Council.

In statewide news:

- The budget news keeps getting worse: The state is telling bond investors it is facing a $1 billion hole in this year’s budget, a shortfall five times bigger than previously disclosed. To try to close the gap, the state plans on cutting funding for schools, municipalities, higher education, hospitals and pension plans to close the gap. And representatives of those groups, most of which have already faced devastating cuts over the past few years, are now wondering: What else can possibly be cut? Gov. Corzine says he’ll have the answer to that question by Christmas.

- Reacting to the news that former CNN blowhard Lou Dobbs might be gunning for his Senate seat, Bob Menendez offered up the best quip we’ve heard in a while: “I’m concentrated on jobs, not Dobbs,” he told reporters on Wednesday.

- Corzine has sent President Obama a letter asking him to declare much of the Shore a disaster area in the wake of the recent nor’easter.

- A lawsuit filed by the state prison investigators’ union alleges that senior officials at the Department of Corrections are illegally blocking internal investigations into bribery, cell phone smuggling and gang activity.

- A recently released federal report accuses the Federal Aviation Administration of endangering public safety by not changing landing procedures at Newark Liberty International Airport.

- Speaking of jobs, Jersey City’s unemployment rate continues to climb, hitting 12 percent in September.

- A 29-year-old Jersey City man died in the hospital after being shot in the thigh outside a BG’s Tavern on Communipaw Avenue early Saturday morning.

- The Journal has a report from the scene of the AIG protests we told you about last week.

- An employee of Provident Bank’s Bergen Avenue branch has been charged with stealing more than $100,000 from the accounts of senior citizens and bank customers who had recently died.

- The leader of a large-scale counterfeit check ring based in Jersey City has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

- More than 300 people attended St. Peter’s College’s 38th Annual Regents Business Symposium, which had the theme “Restoring Confidence: From Crisis to Recovery” and featured speakers like CBS Evening News reporter Byron Pitts.

- A fire shut down Ellis Island over the weekend, but it’s all systems go at the historic tourist landmark as of this morning.

- Crystal Ramirez of Jersey City has received $2,000 for her college education, via the Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey scholarship.

- Crime blotter news: A carjacking, a DUI-related car crash, a stolen-vehicle car crash, and a domestic dispute involving a flower pot.

Today’s Best Bets:

- Contemporary art scholar Eleanor Heartney will be at NJCU to give a talk at noon as part of the NJCU Visiting Artist Program’s “Distinguished Lecture Series,” and the Warehouse is screening another documentary for free at 8:30 pm — the enthralling Man on Wire.

In statewide news:

- Election reaction: Christie could become the most conservative governor in New Jersey’s modern history, and some hard-line right-wingers see his victory as part of the same Tea Partying, Death Paneling conservative backlash to the Obama administration that has come out of the woodwork in the past half year or so. Yet some conservatives acknowledge that they’re still a little wary of Christie. Meanwhile, organized labor, fearing job cuts and concessions under the Christie administration, look to make nice with the incoming governor. And whether or not the state can move forward in attacking any of its major problems next year seemingly depends on one key thing: Republicans and Democrats working together.

- New Jersey has been hit particularly hard by the recession, in part because it was exhibiting slower growth than other states even during the boom years.

- From the ‘Did You Know?’ Department: Trenton was once the capital of the United States, but only for 54 days in late 1784. New Jersey Monthly has more.

According to the poll, close to two-thirds of the sample say there is “a lot” of political corruption in New Jersey. A similar poll in 2007 found the same results, but that was a jump from a 2004 poll that found only 45 percent of respondents answered the question the same way.

The poll also found that a majority — 54 percent — of New Jerseyans think their state is more corrupt than other states. This represents a significant increase since 2002, when only 11 percent of respondents thought so. Almost all of the remainder think the level of corruption in New Jersey is the same as elsewhere, with only three percent of respondents saying it’s less corrupt here.

Rutgers professor of political science David Redlawsk, who directed the poll, said that the results reflect “increased cynicism and negativity about government and politics.”

Governor-elect Chris Christie is a former US Attorney for New Jersey with a reputation for collaring slippery politicians, notably former Newark mayor Sharpe James and former state Senate president John Lynch. Christie’s resume, along with an explosive federal corruption sting in July that netted dozens of Jersey pols, made corruption a central issue in this year’s closely contested gubernatorial election. The two major-party candidates used the issue against each other, with Christie saying Gov. Corzine failed to take decisive action against the elected officials caught up in the sting and Corzine releasing a host of negative ads that called Christie’s ethical standards into question.

Here in Jersey City the question of whether officials charged with corruption should be forced to resign has become a hot-button issue. Many, including this news organization, called for city council president Mariano Vega* to resign after he was arrested in July. But only half of the poll respondents agree that merely being accused of a crime should force officeholders from their positions; 42 percent say such officials should be allowed to stay in office until found guilty.

The poll also asked questions about how tolerant New Jerseyans are of corruption and what types of activities are considered corrupt, as well as what groups should be responsible for rooting out corruption in politics. You can see the full text of the poll’s findings here (questions and results tables begin on page 5 of the report).

- In the ‘what went wrong?’ department, the Star-Ledger expands on the theme we noted yesterday: Gov. Corzine’s bid was killed by low turnout in the Democratic strongholds, including Hudson County.

- Congrats to Central Avenue Wines (210 Central Ave. in the Heights), which landed on the Village Voice’s “10 Best Wine Shops in NYC (and NJ)” list, at number 6.

- Two doctors at the Jersey City Medical Center have been named tops in their fields by New Jersey Monthly magazine.

- “I love to vote,” Dislocations’ Tim Herrick writes. “Voting reinforces the small town feel of Jersey City, and it’s just a remarkable feeling I always get, realizing this moment is being repeated in schools and other places all across the land that I love best.”

- James Young at Draw & Quarter has a bit of a rant about the PATH, singling out three specific problems that really draw his ire, and offering simple solutions. One we can get behind for sure: recycling bins for the free (and paid, while we’re at it) commuter newspapers that litter the trains when folks leave them behind. It would be nice to get some regular garbage cans in the mix as well.

Today’s Best Bets:

- Sculptors Ming Fay and Chakaia Booker will be taking part in a “Get Your Art On” discussion at the Jersey City Museum at 1 pm. This evening, the Art House is back with DJ Justin Woo at 8 pm and 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days will be shown at the Warehouse at 8:30 pm.

In statewide news:

- Governor-elect Christie said yesterday that he will move quickly to suspend new regulations on business and find ways to lower crushing property taxes. (More from the Record and Politicker.)

- Dick Codey says that Gov. Corzine’s re-election bid was nearly abandoned this summer as White House concerns over the race grew.

Christie has said that he favors the state’s current law, which allows civil unions, but that he’d veto a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. Corzine, meanwhile, has pledged to sign such a bill. Last year, the state’s Civil Union Review Commission found that same-sex couples can’t achieve equality under the state’s current civil union law and that New Jersey should allow the couples to marry.

Hudson Diversity Action Council president Walt Boraczek tells JCI that the strategy of the state’s LGBT activists had always been to push for the bill’s passage during the legislature’s lame-duck session (the time period between yesterday’s election and the end of the year), but that Christie’s election makes the effort all the more urgent.

“It’s all hands on deck,” he says. “It’s especially important to get it passed because we have a sitting governor who we know will sign it and a elected governor who we fear will not sign it.”

Boraczek’s group and its allies around the state are working quickly to pass the bill, with 11 emergency planning meetings scheduled for tonight and tomorrow around the state. In Jersey City, Hudson Diversity Action Council, JCLGO and Hudson Pride Connections are hosting a meeting tonight at Temple Beth-El (2419 Kennedy Blvd.) at 7 pm.

“We believe we have the votes to pass the bill” Boraczek says. “We would have had a better shot if the election had gone differently, but i still think we have a good shot.”

As the groups mount a full-on push to convince state legislators that there is “significant support” for the bill, Boraczek will be focused on Jersey City’s representatives in the 31st, 32nd and 33rd Districts. He believes most of them will support marriage equality.

“I think the vast majority are going to be in favor,” he says, adding that “one or two that may require some convincing.”

Specifically, he says he sees “an uphill challenge with Nick Sacco,” who represents the 32nd District as a state Senator. “We hope he can come to see what’s best for his constituency … rather than voting his own personal belief.”

Meanwhile, Hudson delivered the largest margin of victory to Gov. Corzine, with the incumbent winning 69 to 26.55 percent over ultimate victor Chris Christie. Essex County, which had the second-lowest turnout of the state’s counties, incidentally, gave the second-largest margin of victory to Corzine. A look at the county-by-county turnout rankings, coupled with which way the county voted, tells one of the many stories of how this race was lost. The urban base did not turn out aggressively enough for Corzine.

Whether the low turnout in Hudson has anything to do with July’s federal corruption busts is not 100 percent clear, but the probe — and the harm it may have inflicted on the political machine — couldn’t have helped.

Here are the numbers from other counties, along with which candidate that county went to. It’s worth noting that many of the Christie counties at the top of the list went to the Republican by a landslide, and Corzine’s highest-turnout victory county (Bergen) just barely gave the governor the win.

• Hunterdon: 59.47 percent (Christie)
• Somerset: 52.21 percent (Christie)
• Ocean: 51.91 percent (Christie)
• Cape May: 51.8 percent (Christie)
• Morris: 50.22 percent (Christie)
• Sussex: 49.96 percent (Christie)
• Warren: 48.87 percent (Christie)
• Bergen: 47.34 percent (Corzine)
• Salem: 47.07 percent (Christie)
• Burlington: 46.10 percent (Christie)
• Monmouth: 45.27 percent (Christie)
• Gloucester: 45.09 percent (Christie)
• Union: 43.93 percent (Corzine)
• Passaic: 42.23 percent (Corzine)
• Middlesex: 41.87 percent (Christie)
• Camden: 41.59 percent (Corzine)
• Atlantic: 41.53 percent (Christie)
• Cumberland: 39.04 percent (Corzine)
• Mercer: 38.20 percent (Corzine)
• Essex: 37.83 percent (Corzine)

For data geeks who want to mine the county-by-county numbers, they’re all linked on this page.