June 3, 2008 - 4:57pm

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Murphy 'feels good'

By Danny Reiter, PolitickerMD.com Reporter

Third Congressional District Republican candidate Justin Murphy is considered the long shot by most observers in today's primary, but he said in an interview that he feels "very good."

Murphy stressed the importance of his base - an alternative group of supporters in Ocean County. He told PolitickerNJ.com that if he doesn't do well in Ocean County, his campaign will "be recorded as a nice try." He explained that his strategy is to get enough votes out of Ocean County specifically to get the third he believes he will need to win. According to Murphy, the idea is to balance the votes between the Chris Myers and Jack Kelly campaigns, which he describes as "one machine versus another machine."

Following the theme of the evening, he was uncertain what the low voter turnout meant. However, Murphy said that there was "such a mud festival between the two machine candidates" that "people got turned off."

Although Murphy is considered the race's underdog by most observers, he was satisfied with his campaign's ability to get the message out. "I would say yes [we got our message out] ." He noted his campaign had the most successful webpage with the most traffic in the race. But he did say he wished the campaign had more money, TV and radio time.

Danny Reiter is a PolitickerMD.com Reporter and can be reached via email at Daniel.reiter@politicker.com.

Related topics: Jack Kelly, Chris Myers, Justin Murphy, Ocean County

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