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A brief electoral history of Sean Spiller

January 28, 2025 5:22 pmJanuary 29, 2025 10:21 am

If Sean Spiller is elected governor of New Jersey this year, it will be the culmination of two very different strands of the Democrat’s life and career. One of those strands is Spiller the teacher: Spiller started out as a...

N.J. State Senators more likely to die in office than win election as governor

November 21, 2021 2:33 pm

New Jersey State Senators are more likely to die in office than to use the Senate as a springboard to another elected post. Under the current State Constitution passed in 1947, 68 sitting state senators have asked voters to promote...

Here’s how the Monmouth poll has fared in the last 4 governor’s races

October 27, 2021 12:01 amOctober 27, 2021 12:40 pm

As New Jerseyans await Patrick Murray’s gold standard Monmouth University poll of the 2021 gubernatorial campaign between Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli , here’s a look at the track record of the poll in the last...

August polls: sometimes right, sometimes not

August 18, 2021 11:00 amAugust 18, 2021 10:56 am

A new Monmouth University poll that puts Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy ahead of Republican Jack Ciattarelli by 16 points, 52%-36%, means a closer race than it was four years ago. In the summer of 2017, Murphy led then-Lt. Gov. Kim...

How early N.J. gubernatorial polls turned out

June 21, 2021 12:17 pmOctober 19, 2021 2:46 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy’s 15-point lead over Republican Jack Ciattarelli in today’s Fairleigh Dickinson University poll shows a closer race than he had during his first campaign for governor four years ago. Murphy is ahead, 48%-33%, according to the FDU poll....

The special for John Lewis’ seat, and some NJ political history

December 1, 2020 9:49 amMay 23, 2021 10:31 pm

Georgia voters go to the polls today to elect a short-term replacement for John Lewis, a legendary civil rights leader and 17-term congressman who died in July. The winner of the special election runoff will serve until January 3, when...

The O’Toole Chronicles: My Experiences from Legislative Redistricting

October 13, 2020 12:01 amOctober 12, 2020 9:16 pm

As I filled out my vote-by-mail ballot this year and got to Ballot Question #3, it brought back a flood of memories related to Legislative Redistricting – both as a member of the Legislature deeply affected in 2001 and as...