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Teacher union backs Clarke for Senate in LD-26

August 30, 2021 9:55 amAugust 30, 2021 9:56 am

The American Federation of Teachers New Jersey has endorsed Democrat Christine Clarke for State Senate in the 26th district State Senate race. Clarke, the Jefferson Democratic municipal chair and an environmental activist, is challenging four-term Senate Minority Whip Joseph Pennacchio....

Frank Askin, legendary ACLU counsel and Rutgers professor, dies at 89

July 6, 2021 8:29 pmJuly 7, 2021 12:15 am

Frank Askin, an iconic constitutional scholar and activist who spent 36 years as the general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, died on July 1. He was 89. Askin was twice a candidate for the U.S....

The time a write-in campaign worked

April 14, 2021 12:01 amApril 13, 2021 10:03 pm

Write-in campaigns are largely uphill, but not impossible under special circumstances. In 1994, Democrats in New Jersey’s 11th district had a critical electoral crisis. Their candidate for Congress against Republican Rep. Dean Gallo (R-Parsippany) was supposed to be Daniel Tauriello,...

78% of successful House challengers were political unknowns

May 11, 2020 3:16 pmMay 14, 2020 10:25 am

In a race for Congress, New Jerseyans are historically more likely to vote for someone they had never really heard of against an incumbent Member of Congress than they are to go with someone who has been winning elections for...

For primary challengers to incumbent House members, history isn’t on their side

April 20, 2020 5:59 pm

It happens every two years, when candidates like John Caramanna, Dennis Speed and Jeanne Martines emerge as self-proclaimed contenders for the U.S. House of Representatives in primaries against incumbents. With eight of New Jersey’s twelve House incumbents facing challengers in...

Onuoha to seek GOP House nomination as a write-in candidate

April 10, 2020 2:07 pmApril 10, 2020 8:10 pm

Christian Onuoha will seek the Republican nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 6th district as a write-in candidate after failing to obtain the 200 signatures to get him on the ballot in the July 7 primary election. Onuoha’s lone rival...

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...