There’s another wrinkle to New Jersey governor Jon Corzine’s reelection campaign kickoff last night: Apparently state negotiators capitulated to a large public-sector union in the face of a threat of a picket line at last night’s campaign event; there was fear that Joe Biden would refuse to cross the picket line. So Corzine managed to put his political needs ahead of the state’s interest in the process of launching his reelection campaign.

Also of note, Corzine managed to get 77 percent in the Democratic primary, up against “three challengers with no money, no base, no organization, and no name identification” and “the least total number of votes cast for the winner of a Democratic statewide primary over the last decade.”

Yes, Jon Corzine will be able to spend millions upon millions of his personal fortune in his reelection bid. But man, with numbers like these, this race may not turn out as close we thought.