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Pols love a good comeback story

September 27, 2012 9:46 PM By DAN JANISON dan.janison@newsday.com

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks at the

Photo credit: Getty Images | New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Rosemont, Illinois. (June 8, 2012)

Dan Janison

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Elected executives love to sell their tenures as recovery stories. In their dream script for hard fiscal times, supervisors, mayors, governors or presidents want to be able to say convincingly that they inherited economic troubles and exercised wise and bold leadership to turn the corner toward prosperity.

Their challengers will say the incumbents are steering us all down the wrong road.

The...

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