June 3, 2009 9:59AM 

# No Longer among the “Usual Left-Right Battles” 

By [Andrew J. Coulson](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-coulson) 

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Christopher J. Christie just decisively won New Jersey’s Republican gubernatorial primary, but had to veer away from his middle-of-the-road plan and venture into some traditionally conservative territory to do it, according to news accounts. Will that be a problem for him in the general election? Not necessarily. As NorthJersey.com’s [Charles Stile observes](http://www.northjersey.com/news/njpolitics/46777132.html), Christie’s ardent support for private school choice is not the polarizing stance it once was: these programs “once championed by conservative ideologues, are being embraced by urban Democrats.”

As we’ve been saying at the Center for Educational Freedom for some time now, [the post-partisan age of school choice is well within sight](https://www.cato.org/2009/05/19/support-for-private-school-choice-officially-mainstream/), and draws closer every day. The last politicos to see that will find themselves on the wrong side of history, and the wrong side of voters in both parties.

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