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Grapevine: N.J. Paper's Mixed Election Messages

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    Stories about Gov. Christie, state vote contradict

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And now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine.

The Newark based star ledgers headline after Tuesday's election is raising some eyebrows it reads quote demo strike back finally.

Give Christie a black guy.

The -- begins quote after being bloodied by governor Chris Christie for nearly two years.

Democrats struck back yesterday fighting off well funded Republican challenges and gaming.

One seat in the state legislature.

The paper's own editorial section in that same Paper has this analysis quote.

In the end Christi lost nothing the bipartisan coalition he put together.

Which relies on his alliance with big democratic losses survive the night unscathed.

The staff of Washington senator Patty Murray who is co chair.

Of the deficit reduction super committee is spending Tuesday and Wednesday holed up in the offices of a prominent Seattle lobbying firm.

Murray's spokesman tells the Seattle times this is a non story but a congressional watchdog group is questioning the ethics of the arrangement.

Using a free conference room is technically not a formal senate ethics breach.

But the Sunlight Foundation notes quote it's the kind of thing that makes most people shake their head and say.

Why is -- it against the rules.

And finally the Reverend Al Sharpton is taking issue with.

The Bible on his MSNBC show Sharpton played a clip of Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann.

Saying quote.

Our nation should stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves.

Self reliance means if anyone will not work neither shall they eat.

Sharpton responded quote if you don't have work you should starve is that her vision of America.

The phrase that the reverend Sharpton blasted and Bachmann cited is actually from the second pistol of Paul to the -- along means in the new testament.