Barry Goldwater Archives - Page 3 of 4

Key moment for Nixon was when 18 New Jersey Republicans bolted from Case

February 17, 2020 12:12 pm

For some time, presidential primaries in New Jersey where nothing more than beauty contests where the preferred candidate of a voter was deemed so unimportant that their names did not appear on the ballot. Instead, voters had to wrote in...

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....

Bergen Record endorses Schepisi, Auth

October 31, 2019 8:46 am

The (Bergen) Record has endorsed incumbents Holly Schepisi (R-River Vale) and Bob Auth (R-Old Tappan for re-election to the State Assembly in the 39th district. “Schepisi and, to a lesser extent, Auth have both shown an ability to work across...

Another Frelinghuysen story

August 27, 2019 4:29 pmJune 30, 2021 5:44 pm

A contested race for House Minority Leader placed Gerald Ford on a path that landed him in the White House, but largely forgotten in that story was that Ford’s running mate, Peter Frelinghuysen (R-Harding), lost his bid for Minority Whip....

Adrian Heffern, Asbury Park Press political columnist and statehouse editor, dies at 92

April 20, 2019 4:33 pmAugust 28, 2022 12:20 am

Adrian F. Heffern, Jr., a fabled old-school newspaper reporter and columnist who spent 45 years with the Asbury Park Press, died on April 17. He was 92. Heffern began his journalism career with WJLK, a Monmouth County-based FM radio station...

LBJ, Nixon, Reagan swept all 21 New Jersey counties

February 18, 2019 5:50 amFebruary 18, 2019 5:47 am

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....

Cardinale predecessor dies

December 30, 2018 3:16 pmJanuary 1, 2019 4:37 pm

Joseph Ringelstein, a Democrat who ousted the Republican mayor of Demarest in 1964 in oine of seventeen Bergen County that voted for Barry Goldwater, died on December 28. He was 93. It was Ringelstein’s resignation a decade later that created...