I may be the only political geek in the world who is thinking, nevermind Pat Robertson’s endorsement, how did the New Jersey Republicans that Rudy Giuliani campaigned for do yesterday?

Team Rudy is able to point to one big upset that they like to think they had a hand in: Jennifer Beck’s defeat of State Senator Ellen Karcher in Monmouth. It’s the first time in ten years that a Republican has ousted a sitting state senator in the Garden State, and dominated the front page of the Star-Ledger.

From Rudy’s stop, last Thursday:

Giuliani, currently a Republican presidential contender, stumped for Beck and her team at a rally in Manalapan where he urged the party faithful to get out the vote in a race he said will have repercussions on the national level.
Speaking to a partisan crowd of about 200 people, Giuliani said, “As soon as they win, we’ll be back here and we’ll be working on February and November, and we’re going to have three victories in a row.”

More on Giuliani’s New Jersey connections here.

The evidence that Giuliani can help elect Republicans in blue states isn’t overwhelming… but it’s not nothin’, either.