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Al Angrisani, former Reagan administration official, dies at 70

May 2, 2020 4:45 pm

Albert Angrisani, who played a key role in Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign in New Jersey and then served as Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor, died on April 23. He was 70. Angrisani began his political career in 1976 as...

N.J. hasn’t tossed an incumbent U.S. Senator in a general in 78 years

April 22, 2020 2:19 pmApril 22, 2020 8:39 pm

Democrat Cory Booker has some factors working for him as he seeks re-election to the United States Senate this year: strong favorables from the gold standard of independent pollsters; more than $2 million raised less than three months after ending...

Is Ocean County a hotbed of misogyny? Look at the numbers.

March 7, 2020 12:03 pmMarch 8, 2020 4:15 pm

A vote by Ocean County Republicans to pick a man over a woman in the race for Congress this week is consistent with a track record of not running women for office over the last 100 years. The chain might...

In New Jersey, Nixon, Reagan landslides didn’t help GOP candidates

February 27, 2020 12:02 amFebruary 26, 2020 10:50 pm

Ronald Reagan carried New Jersey by 672,307 over Walter Mondale in 1984, 60%-39%, but his landslide win of the state’s sixteen electoral votes didn’t have much of an effect on the races for U.S. Senate and Congress. Democrat Bill Bradley...

Cumberland icon Gary Simmerman, ex-freeholder, dies at 85

February 24, 2020 10:52 amFebruary 24, 2020 10:53 am

Gary F. Simmerman, a former four-term Cumberland County freeholder who held county and state political positions and enjoyed a successful career as a banker, died on February 20. He was 85. He was elected Bridgeton city treasurer in 1963, at...

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...

New Jersey could have its first non-white statewide race

January 31, 2020 11:19 am

If this week’s Union County Republican convention was an accurate indicator of the rest of the state, New Jersey could be headed to a historical first: a statewide election where none of the major party candidates are white. The Union...