New Jersey is the only state that doesn’t have a tie-breaking statute, so seats sit vacant until judges and county election officials can agree on a date for a do-over election that typically draws relatively few voters. In South Toms...
The withdrawal of two New Jerseyans from the campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination keeps Woodrow Wilson’s record intact as the last Garden Stater to win the presidency. Booker withdrew on January 13, 2019 and former Rep. John Delaney...
The withdrawal of two New Jerseyans from the campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination last month keeps Woodrow Wilson’s record intact as the last Garden Stater to win the presidency. Booker withdrew on January 13 and former Rep. John...
Happy Birthday to former Gov. Jim Florio, who turned 83 today. Florio has been a fixture in New Jersey politics since 1969, when he won a seat in the New Jersey. He spent fifteen years as a congressman from South...
A lawsuit challenging the postponement of Democratic county committee elections in Cape May and Atlantic counties just a few days ago already has a new judge. The case was originally assigned to Judge James Pickering, the former Democratic county chairman...
The decision of U.S. Senator Bob Menendez to endorse Brigid Callahan Harrison for Congress in the 2nd district Democratic primary could be the settlement of an 18-year old political grudge. When Menendez was a congressman in 2002, he ran for...
Presidential re-election landslides don’t have the kind of coattails people think, although there hasn’t been one since 1972 and comparing seemingly ancient election results like these are admittedly apples and oranges. Richard Nixon carried everywhere but Massachusetts and the District...