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New Jerseyans as presidential candidates

February 15, 2021 12:01 amFebruary 13, 2021 6:17 pm

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, Jim Florio

August 29, 2020 8:16 pmAugust 30, 2020 12:02 am

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...

New judge in county committee court challenge was also a county chairman

April 1, 2020 3:56 pmApril 2, 2020 11:39 am

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...

Was Menendez endorsement in NJ-2 just settling a grudge against Patrick Kennedy?

February 28, 2020 1:33 pmMarch 2, 2020 1:54 pm

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...

No real coattails for Nixon, Reagan in landslide re-election victories

February 27, 2020 12:01 amFebruary 26, 2020 10:39 pm

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...

LBJ, Nixon, Reagan swept all 21 New Jersey counties

February 17, 2020 12:11 amFebruary 16, 2020 6:53 pm

Just 22,091 votes separated John F. Kennedy from Richard M. Nixon in the contest for New Jersey’s sixteen electoral votes in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy won 50% to Nixon’s 49%, but Nixon carried 14 of New Jersey’s 21 counties....

New Jerseyans as presidential candidates

February 17, 2020 12:00 amFebruary 16, 2020 7:27 pm

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...