Republican Gov.-elect Chris Christie spent the second day after his election much like the first: with a Democratic leader in a Democratic town talking about bipartisanship.

Christie went to Woodbridge Thursday, a blue collar Middlesex County town, one of the biggest municipalities in the state, that typically votes Democratic but backed the Republican Tuesday. Christie greeted residents on Main Street alongside Democratic Mayor John McCormac, a former state Treasurer. The previous day Christie was greeted at a Newark charter school along with Democratic power broker Steve Adubato, Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo.

The message today was just like Wednesday's: Christie said he would work with anyone who is effective, Democrat or Republican. "New Jersey's problems are too big for the petty kind of politics of the past," he said. It's a practical message -- Christie will still have to work with a Legislature controlled by Democrats.

Christie has always been a forceful presence, and it appears that that will continue, including in his dealings with the press. While reporters normally shout over one another to get their questions in, the former prosecutor was in control of his press availability, calling out reporters by name to take their questions and imposing some order on the normally chaotic scrum.

Christie said he had spoken with President Obama, who campaigned for Gov. Corzine, and that there are no hard feelings between himself and the president. He said he also spoke with Corzine and expected the transition to go smoothly.

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