Bob Dole turns 96
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...
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Perot won 16% in New Jersey vs. Clinton, Bush
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
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
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....
Booker still a 2020 U.S. Senate candidate
Cory Booker remains a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate in 2020. The New Jersey approved a new law last October that would allow Booker to run for president while simultaneously seeking to keep his Senate seat. Booker...
New Jersey’s George Bush
When George Bush endorsed Bob Dole for president in 1988, it made national headlines. One of the many oddities of 1980’s New Jersey politics was during the twelve years George H.W. Bush served as vice president and president of the...
Presidential nominees don’t run for another office
Some history to go along with the proposed legislation that would allow Cory Booker to run for president or vice president in 2020 while simultaneously seeking re-election to the United States Senate. No major party presidential nominee has ever run...