Jimmy Carter Archives - Page 6 of 6

How many County Chairman can Murphy deliver in 2020?

March 26, 2018 12:55 amMarch 26, 2018 10:27 pm

Can Phil Murphy do what other New Jersey governors have done: deliver county chairs to his preferred candidate for president in 2020? If Cory Booker decides to seek the Democratic nomination, it’s a moot issue. Booker won’t have to worry...

The time Cy Vance became Secretary of State

March 13, 2018 1:50 pm

The last time a United States Senator from New Jersey was the ranking minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a President from the other party nominated a U.S. Secretary of State: 1976, and the new Secretary of...

The Republican screw up that made Menendez Mayor

March 13, 2018 2:02 amMarch 14, 2018 2:16 am

The success of Bob Menendez’s political career might be because of bad staff work. The story starts in 1976, when Hudson County gave Jimmy Carter a paltry 23,605 vote margin against Gerald Ford. Assembly Speaker Joseph LeFante (D-Bayonne), largely blamed...

The Life and Times of Jeff Bell

February 12, 2018 2:26 amOctober 10, 2018 2:07 pm

Jeff Bell’s upset victory over four-term U.S. Senator Clifford Case in the 1978 Republican primary was one of the great political campaigns in New Jersey history. Bell was a 35-year-old speechwriter for Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign, and Case became...