The curse of the Longworth Building
78% of NJ congressmen who lost had Longworth offices in first term
Tag: Charles Sandman
In NJ-2, 126 years since party last held an open House seat
Republican Frank LoBiondo will retire from the U.S. House of Representatives in January after 24 years as a congressman. The winner of the open seat 2nd district race will become just the fourth person to represent the South Jersey seat in the last 50 years. The 2nd district has a long history of flipping red to blue. The last time a part held an open seat in this district was
The 2020 House Short List
Plan B, if Patrick Murray is right
Wave year elections in New Jersey
Two modern era wave elections happened so long ago that a comparison to New Jersey in 2018 is apples and oranges. But both are examples of highly-charged mid-term elections that allowed Democrats in the wake of the Watergate scandal to pick up 49 House seats in 1974, and Republicans to gain 54 seats in the Republican Revolution that became a national referendum on President Clinton’s health care reform. Republicans picked
Brendan Byrne (1924-2018)
The first time Brendan Byrne made an in-print list of potential candidates for Governor of New Jersey was about a month after Richard Nixon’s landslide re-election in the 1972 presidential race. Watergate wasn’t really a thing yet, but Democrats sensed that the GOP incumbent, William Cahill, was vulnerable. Democratic State Chairman Salvatore Bontempo compiled a list of about 25 possible candidates –he called it the A to W list, because