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Biden opens up 16-point lead over Trump in New Jersey, Monmouth poll says

April 23, 2020 10:00 amApril 23, 2020 10:42 am

Joe Biden has a sixteen-point lead over Donald Trump in New Jersey, according to a Monmouth University Poll released this morning, but the race is a dead heat in the state’s battleground congressional districts. Biden leads Trump by a 54%-38%...

Murphy is New Jersey’s most popular governor since Kean, poll shows

April 21, 2020 4:18 pm

In the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Phil Murphy has become the most popular elected governor of New Jersey since Tom Kean was at 76%-6% (Rutgers-Eagleton, 10/1985) weeks before he was re-elected with 70% of the vote. Murphy’s...

Ruth Mandel, Eagleton-Rutgers legend, dies at 81

April 11, 2020 8:09 pmApril 12, 2020 1:14 am

The New York Times is reporting that Ruth B. Mandel, the longtime director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University in New Jersey and a legend in the New Jersey political world, has died at 81. Mandel headed the...

Jim Welsh, Union freeholder, judge, dies at 74

March 25, 2020 10:02 amMarch 27, 2020 10:07 am

James C. Welsh, an affable Union County politician who served as a mayor, freeholder and judge, died on March 21. He was 74. Welsh served as Hillside municipal prosecutor and township attorney, and won several terms on the township committee....

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...

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...