Taking on the System

A look back at Chris Daggetts third party campaign for governor

By Dan Bracaglia

Multimedia Editor

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009

Updated: Thursday, November 5, 2009

Dan Bracaglia / Multimedia Editor

Taking on the System: A look back at Chris Daggett's run for governor of NJ from Targum Editor on Vimeo.

On Tuesday November 3, 2009, Chris Daggett became the most successful gubernatorial candidate in New Jersey's history, bringing in 5.5% of the vote. This is the story behind his grass-roots campaign that captured the attention of the nation.

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student

Sun Nov 8 2009 17:09

Dearest alumni,
Your are quite the conspiracy theorist.

Debbie

Fri Nov 6 2009 18:19

Nice job Dan - I'm glad you were able to cover the Daggett campaign on election night - especially since he comes from your home town. He was probably the most interesting candidate. It's a shame that whole robocalling issue happened - I think a lot of people thought that Chris Daggett was involved in that scam. I hope that the truth comes on that at some point.

Alumni

Fri Nov 6 2009 14:53

Most successful with 5% of the vote? Do you mean the most successful Independent candidate? Daggett was a democratic plant, paid for by the Corzine campaign, not truly an indenpendent. I guess you missed the fact that the democrats were paying for Daggett's robocalls to try to take votes away from Christie. Corzine and Daggett made a mockery of the election and should face consequences for what they did.

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