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Booker at 2% in Monmouth Poll

December 10, 2019 11:00 amDecember 10, 2019 2:00 pm

Cory Booker is at 2% in a national Monmouth University poll, half of where he would need to be to qualify for the December Democratic presidential debate. Joe Biden leads Bernie Sanders, 26%-21%, with Elizabeth Warren in third place with...

New Jersey’s Declaration of Independence signers were not professional politicians

July 4, 2019 2:29 pmJuly 8, 2019 3:50 pm

Just one of the five New Jerseyans who signed the Declaration of Independence went on to run for public office. Abraham Clark was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving in the Second and Third Congress from 1791 until...

George Washington carried New Jersey

February 18, 2019 5:35 amFebruary 18, 2019 4:50 am

New Jersey backed George Washington twice. Washington received all six of the state’s electoral votes in 1789. New Jersey gave six of their votes for vice president to John Jay and one to the winner, John Adams. There was no...