Corpulent Christie may be the guy to slim down US

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Moments after tramping out of my building’s swaying stairwell and into the street during August’s D.C. earthquake, I checked my phone’s Twitter app and got my first good postquake laugh. Salon’s Alex Pareene cracked: “I think Chris Christie just jumped into the race.”

It’s not clear yet whether he will or won’t, but one of the most-discussed issues in the current Christie, er, “boomlet” is whether the New Jersey governor is “too fat to be president.”

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