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LBJ, Nixon swept all 21 New Jersey counties

February 19, 2024 12:12 amFebruary 16, 2025 4:02 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 20, 2023 12:14 amFebruary 20, 2023 12:13 am

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. Cory Booker withdrew on January 13, 2019, and former Rep. John...

Just one state has no law to break election ties and it’s New Jersey

March 23, 2022 12:08 pm

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...

New Jerseyans as presidential candidates

February 21, 2022 12:11 amFebruary 20, 2022 9:37 pm

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...

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...