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No real coattails for Nixon, Reagan in landslide re-election victories

February 27, 2020 12:01 amFebruary 26, 2020 10:39 pm

Presidential re-election landslides don’t have the kind of coattails people think, although there hasn’t been one since 1972 and comparing seemingly ancient election results like these are admittedly apples and oranges. Richard Nixon carried everywhere but Massachusetts and the District...

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....

The time the media took down a congressman from Boonton

November 1, 2019 12:28 pmNovember 1, 2019 12:38 pm

If the Daily Record hadn’t died before Tony Bucco did, the race for State Assembly in the 25th district could be entirely different. In the old days, when daily newspapers provided intensive local news coverage, politicians like Anthony M. Bucco...

Labor Leader: George Norcross spent 16 years as South Jersey AFL-CIO president

September 2, 2019 1:04 amSeptember 1, 2019 11:58 pm

George E. Norcross (1928-1998), the father of a U.S. Congressman, the managing partner at a major New Jersey law firm, and the state’s most powerful Democratic powerbroker, spent his career as a labor leader. Norcross served as president of the...

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of NJ CIO served one-term in Congress

September 2, 2019 1:01 amSeptember 2, 2019 1:51 am

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...

Joe Tighue, former Mercer Surrogate, Freeholder, dies at 87

August 27, 2019 12:35 pmAugust 27, 2019 2:45 pm

Joseph Tighue, a popular Mercer County vote-getter during more than twenty years as a countywide elected official, died on August 24. He was 87. Tighue first ran for office in 1969 as the county organization candidate for Mercer County Freeholder. ...

Jim Bouton, McGovern delegate from New Jersey and New York Yankees pitcher, dies

July 10, 2019 9:48 pmJuly 11, 2019 6:04 am

Jim Bouton, a former New York Yankees pitcher and best-selling author who died on Wednesday, was a New Jersey delegate to the 1972 Democratic National Convention pledged to George McGovern. Bouton refused to vote for McGovern’s vice presidential pick, Thomas...