If Christie held up under the pressure, he would appeal to workingclass Democrats (a group where Obama is already weak) and put into play Blue states such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Everywhere in the developed world, the decline of mass-production industries has put pressure on the roles and incomes of working-class and middle-class men.
She said unless politicians went to the streets in workingclass areas and they wouldn't understand the "unbelievable pressure" on young girls and women about how they looked.