Here's one: Dick Codey, Jim McGreevey's Jersey replacement, has decided that he will not seek to a full term.

[H]e said he did not want to neglect his family responsibilities by adding the roles of candidate and fund-raiser to a list of titles that includes acting governor, State Senate president, father, husband and coach to a youth basketball team in Newark.

"It is way too much for any one person," he said today, as a roomful of staff members and supporters looked on, some with tears in their eyes.

He was governor for ten weeks, and his problem is that his political ambitions have hit a brick wall named billionaire Senator Jon Corzine. In New Jersey, I've heard it said, Corzine could have defeated McGreevey when he was straight.

The NJ GOP will need a popular President Bush to help out with this one, and they just might get it. The way the Democrats have set things up, their popularity falls as the President's rises. It's a zero sum game right now, for the most part, and it looks promising for the President.