Peter Boyer, Newsweek
Did the Jersey governor blow his White House chances? He talks to Peter J. Boyer about why he passed on running""and how Romney could talk him into being his running mate.The most consequential vote of the political season may well have been one that occurred last October, around a dinner table in Mendham, N.J. Chris Christie had just returned home from a cross-country trip, highlighted by a speech at the Reagan Library in California, that seemed like a road test for a presidential run. When the family gathered for supper that Monday evening, Christie's oldest son, Andrew,...