Can Chris Christie win?

Many in the GOP and media elite are starting to hope so

The candidate the GOP needs?
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This is Chris Christie's moment.

The New Jersey governor is being embraced by the media as a real contender. He won the coveted imprimatur of the New Hampshire Union Leader. The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg sat down with Christie for a long interview about foreign policy and the Middle East. Christie is beloved in the "Greenroomistan" primary, where TV pundits talk up this or that not-so-socially-conservative candidate's chances to death. Christie is even getting his turn near the top of some polls, placing second behind Donald Trump in one of the latest surveys from New Hampshire. (Though he still lags far behind Trump — 27 percent to 12 percent — and is barely ahead of Marco Rubio's 11 and Ted Cruz's 10.)

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is the founder and editor of The Slurve, a newsletter about baseball. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Slate and The American Conservative.