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New Jersey liked Ike, but Warren Harding set the record

February 21, 2022 12:09 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:13 pm

New Jersey loved Warren Harding. In the 1920 presidential election, Harding won 68% of the vote in New Jersey. He won all 21 counties, and the GOP won 59 of the state’s 60 State Assembly seats. Calvin Coolidge took 62%...

Here’s what you missed over the Thanksgiving break

November 29, 2021 6:43 amNovember 29, 2021 10:13 am

Since Election Day was ten days long, it’s ok if you checked out early on Wednesday. Here’s what you missed: * Assembly Republicans are planning to challenge a new rule that would ban lawmakers from entering the statehouse if they...

How a 1,200-vote primary win led to a 26-year congressional career

September 2, 2021 12:01 amSeptember 2, 2021 8:35 am

A relatively small number of votes can affect the political history of the state and there is no shortage of times that’s happened in New Jersey. When four-term Rep. Charles Howell (D-Pennington) gave up his 4th district House seat to...

New Jersey liked Ike, but Warren Harding set the record

February 15, 2021 12:10 amFebruary 13, 2021 6:27 pm

New Jersey loved Warren Harding. In the 1920 presidential election, Harding won 68% of the vote in New Jersey. He won all 21 counties, and the GOP won 59 of the state’s 60 State Assembly seats. Calvin Coolidge took 62%...

Trump names GOP donor as postmaster general. Could that mean the return of local postmasters as congressional picks?

May 8, 2020 1:50 pmJuly 21, 2020 10:39 am

President Donald Trump named a top Republican contributor as the new Postmaster General, returning the post to a political appointee for the first time in 48 years. Post offices were once the ultimate patronage pits for political organizations, some of...

Peter Cartmell, elected to office in 1948, dies at 98

February 29, 2020 4:19 pmMarch 2, 2020 11:22 am

Former Rumson mayor Peter Cartmell, an immigrant who won his first election 71 years ago and later led the fight to admit women and blacks to the all-male, all-white Essex Club, died on February 22. He was 98. The Monmouth...

New Jersey liked Ike, but Warren Harding set the record

February 17, 2020 12:09 amFebruary 16, 2020 6:56 pm

New Jersey loved Warren Harding. In the 1920 presidential election, Harding won 68% of the vote in New Jersey. He won all 21 counties, and the GOP won 59 of the state’s 60 State Assembly seats. Calvin Coolidge took 62%...