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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....

Trump toys with New Jersey, says he may contest state

January 28, 2020 9:03 pmJanuary 29, 2020 8:50 am

President Donald Trump hinted tonight that he might seek New Jersey’s fourteen electoral votes, even though a Republican presidential candidate hasn’t carried the state since 1988. “I think we’ll play for this state,” Trump said at a rally tonight in...

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

January 15, 2020 8:19 amJanuary 15, 2020 8:29 am

Gov. Phil Murphy will be the first governor to stay out of the presidential race in 28 years, leaving Democratic county chairs — and in some cases, Democratic County Committee members — to award the organization line n the June...

Bob Dole turns 96

July 22, 2019 9:02 pmJuly 22, 2019 10:11 pm

Bob Dole, who turned 96 today, served with 27 New Jerseyans during his 35 years in Congress — five in the Senate, where he represented Kansas from 1969 to 1996, and 22 in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he...

Perot won 16% in New Jersey vs. Clinton, Bush

July 9, 2019 11:38 am

Ross Perot, a billionaire businessman who sought the presidency as an independent in 1992 and 1996, died today. He was 89. Perot won 16% of the vote in New Jersey in 1992, when Bill Clinton carried the state by 79,341...

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....

Two 2020 Democratic presidential candidates grew up in Bergen County

February 1, 2019 6:59 amFebruary 1, 2019 7:57 am

U.S. Senator Cory Booker wants to be the first New Jerseyan to win the presidency since Gov. Woodrow Wilson in 1912. In 1960, New Jersey’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention were pledged to Gov. Robert Meyner, the favorite-son candidate....