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The curse of the Longworth Building

December 1, 2018 5:24 pmDecember 1, 2018 11:18 pm

Good news for Tom Malinowski and Jeff Van Drew: New Jersey congressmen who spend their first two years in the Cannon House Office Building are statistically more likely to get re-elected than freshmen who draw an office in Longworth. Fourteen...

The Carpetbagger

October 18, 2018 10:43 pmOctober 19, 2018 8:57 pm

Since Leonard Lance called Tom Malinowski a carpetbagger in last night’s debate – an unfair allegation, since Malinowski grew up in a town next door to the current boundaries of district – here’s a great story about carpetbagging that comes...

Men win 98% of NJ House races

August 26, 2018 10:03 am

New Jersey has elected 304 men and six women to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. So you don’t have to reach for a calculator, that’s 98% men, 2% women. If you start the clock in 1922 — the...

Bill Schluter, former Senator, dies at 90

August 6, 2018 9:38 pmAugust 7, 2018 9:57 am

William E. Schluter, a moderate Republican and self-proclaimed maverick who championed ethics reform during 21 years in the New Jersey Legislature, and an independent candidate for governor, died today. He was 90. Schluter served two separate tenures in the Legislature...

Wave year elections in New Jersey

February 19, 2018 11:21 am

Two modern era wave elections happened so long ago that a comparison to New Jersey in 2018 is apples and oranges. But both are examples of highly-charged mid-term elections that allowed Democrats in the wake of the Watergate scandal to...

NJ Women in Congress: just 6 of 310

January 24, 2018 12:45 am

New Jersey has elected 304 men and six women to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. So you don’t have to reach for a calculator, that’s 98% men, 2% women. If you start the clock in 1922 — the...