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Biden approvals in N.J. at 55% in new Monmouth poll

May 5, 2021 1:00 pmMay 5, 2021 1:04 pm

President Joe Biden has a job approval rating of 55%-39% in New Jersey, according to a Monmouth University poll released on Wednesday. Among registered voters, Biden is at 55%-40%. Biden has approvals of 93% among Democrats, but he’s upside-down among...

How New Jersey almost had two U.S. Attorneys following close 2001 vote

April 25, 2021 7:51 pm

As New Jersey prepares for a new U.S. Attorney and the filling of U.S. District Court Judge vacancies, there has been no talk of renewing a 20-year-old plan to break up the 21-county District of New Jersey and give South...

Dems seek to reject Bacon petitions in gubernatorial primary

April 9, 2021 9:26 pmApril 12, 2021 12:15 am

The New Jersey Democratic State Committee says that Roger Bacon fell short of the 1,000 eligible signatures he needs to qualify as a candidate for governor and is asking that he be removed from the June primary election ballot. Raj...

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 15, 2021 12:13 amFebruary 14, 2021 7:02 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...

New Jersey tends to elect a new governor in the year a new president takes office

December 9, 2020 1:04 pmDecember 9, 2020 7:25 pm

Newly elected presidents are almost always followed by new governors of New Jersey. Since 1953, ten new presidents saw New Jersey elect a new governor in their inauguration year, and the president saw a governor of the opposite political party...

State Housing Agency Executive Director Chuck Richman headed to retirement

December 8, 2020 4:37 pmDecember 9, 2020 8:54 am

Chuck Richman is leaving his position as executive director of the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency after almost 50 years in state government to head into retirement, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Tuesday. “Chuck Richman has been a lifelong...

Kornacki: No other state has New Jersey’s politics

December 1, 2020 8:31 pm

Take it from Steve Kornacki: New Jersey’s politics are unique. In a virtual conversation with Rowan University’s Ben Dworkin, the NBC and MSNBC national political correspondent said the Garden State’s political landscape dwarfed even those of similarly old states. “I...