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Assemblyman Joseph Cryan (D-Union), the Democratic State Chairman, and New Jersey Democratic State Committee Executive Director Rob Angelo, right,

HOLMDEL -- Democratic State Chairman Joseph Cryan finds it hard to believe that Republican gubernatorial nominee Chris Christie’s web video welcoming President Obama to the Garden State will do anything to blunt a hoped-for association between troubled incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine and the popular President.

“I think for a guy who’s against everything Barack Obama is for, I think the idea that he’d try to welcome him in any way speaks for itself,” said Cryan just after passing through metal detectors with his organization’s executive director, Rob Angelo.  

Christie also released a web video today containing snippets of New Jerseyans who said that they voted for Obama in November but plan to vote for Christie.

The New Jersey Democratic State Committee failed to hold a meeting to formally select its electors for Barack Obama, but is still on track to meet the Division of Elections filing deadline of Sept. 12.

State law requires political parties to hold a meeting to nominate electors within seven days of its national convention. The parties then have an additional week to file electors' names with the Division of Elections.

Democratic Committee Executive Director Rob Angelo said the elector certification process, generally completed at the committee meeting, is now underway.

State Party Chairman Joseph Cryan on Friday night.: Politicker photo 

DENVER - The Denver Broncos had left several hours earlier when Joseph Cryan, state Democratic Party chairman, entered the lobby of the Hotel Inverness on Friday night at around 10 p.m., mountain time. 

The football team trains nearby and evidently they get their pre-home game rub-downs here at the Inverness. 

Now the Broncos could be seen vying against the Packers on suspended television sets in the Spotted Dog bar and all the talk around Cryan from his state committee staffers concerned Barack Obama's veep pick.

Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) apparently were already out of the running, according to news reports, leaving most of the New Jersey staffers assuming that Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) would be Obama's running mate.

Rob Angelo in the hotel lobby of the Inverness: Politicker photo

DENVER - Rob Angelo, executive director of the New Jersey State Democratic Committee, walked through the long, carpeted hallways of the Inverness Hotel on Friday afternoon, making preparations.

Angelo landed in town on Wednesday, and he’s been operating ever since to make way for the New Jersey delegation to the Democratic National Convention, which is steadily overtaking the hotel at this point.

"There’s a maximum occupancy here of 302 and we have 240 people from our delegation staying here," said Angelo. "The rest of the people booked to stay here are with the DNC (Democratic National Committee).