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A surprise councilwoman works to flip Palisades Park red

September 26, 2022 1:37 pm

Four years ago, when then-Palisades Park Councilman Christopher Chung defeated incumbent Mayor James Rotundo by eight votes in the Democratic primary, it was a watershed moment in Palisades Park politics. The Bergen County borough is a major hub of New...

In one of New Jersey’s swingiest towns, a mayoral challenger emerges

April 1, 2022 4:35 pm

New Providence was a solidly Republican town, until it wasn’t. The Union County borough, which is in the state’s upper echelons of both income and educational attainment, used to vote for Republicans up and down the ballot, from staunch conservatives...

No organization lines in early 2024 presidential primaries

March 18, 2022 5:14 pm

If New Jersey moves the 2024 presidential primary to earlier in the cycle, there would be no organization lines for the stand-alone contest. Organization lines only exist in primaries where countywide candidates are running. The last time New Jersey held...

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 21, 2022 12:20 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:26 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy was 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 in the 2020 New...

Ciattarelli nearly sweeps towns that flipped from Trump to Biden

November 18, 2021 4:11 pm

Jack Ciattarelli carried 51 of the 53 New Jersey municipalities that flipped from supporting Donald Trump for president in 2016 to Joe Biden in 2020, according to a New Jersey Globe analysis. Gov. Phil Murphy only held one Trump ’16...

It’s not Bill Cahill’s Collingswood anymore

May 11, 2021 12:27 pmMay 12, 2021 1:41 am

The small, suburban Camden County borough that once produced a Republican governor, is now a bright blue municipality. Collingswood voters go to the polls today to choose three borough commissioners in a battle between progressives who took control of the...

A story about Democratic grass roots activists in New Jersey

February 15, 2021 12:19 amFebruary 15, 2021 12:16 am

The emergence of a serious grass roots, activist movement within the New Jersey Democratic Party has happened before. One certainty is that Donald Trump’s presidency, which ended last month, engaged new people into state and local politics from both people...