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Bob Davis, longtime GOP leader and NJ-11 congressional candidate, dies at 85

August 14, 2020 10:22 amAugust 14, 2020 4:52 pm

Robert A. Davis, the Republican candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 11th district, died on August 10. He was 85. A longtime conservative activist, Davis among the early organizers of Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign in New Jersey against the...

N.J. Supreme Court: The Kean Court

June 7, 2020 10:05 pmJune 7, 2020 11:02 pm

Brendan Byrne’s Supreme Court makeover — a Chief Justice and three younger than usual Associate Justices — plus William Cahill’s pick of 49-year-old Robert Clifford — meant that Gov. Thomas Kean would get to name only two Supreme Court Justices...

Threatening to run if he didn’t get the line almost cost Howard 24 years in Congress

April 12, 2020 3:51 pmApril 13, 2020 3:47 pm

A political misstep in a closed-door party screening committee might have cost James J. Howard the chance to spends 24 years as a Democratic congressman from a heavily Republican Monmouth-Ocean district. Howard, one of the most politically adept, naturally-gifted politicians...

John Rocco, former assemblyman, dies at 83

April 8, 2020 4:14 pmApril 8, 2020 7:32 pm

John A. Rocco, a former nine-term Republican assemblyman from Camden County who seconded Ronald Reagan’s nomination at the 1980 Republican National Convention, died today. He was 83. He had been in the hospital for heart-related issues, but the cause of...

Trump picks his New Jersey delegates

March 31, 2020 12:12 amMarch 31, 2020 1:22 am

Former Gov. Chris Christie will head Donald Trump’s slate of 46 New Jersey delegates to the Republican National Convention, according to a list of candidates designated by the Trump-Pence campaign. New Jersey has ten at-large delegates elected statewide, and each...

In New Jersey, Nixon, Reagan landslides didn’t help GOP candidates

February 27, 2020 12:02 amFebruary 26, 2020 10:50 pm

Ronald Reagan carried New Jersey by 672,307 over Walter Mondale in 1984, 60%-39%, but his landslide win of the state’s sixteen electoral votes didn’t have much of an effect on the races for U.S. Senate and Congress. Democrat Bill Bradley...

No real coattails for Nixon, Reagan in landslide re-election victories

February 27, 2020 12:01 amFebruary 26, 2020 10:39 pm

Presidential re-election landslides don’t have the kind of coattails people think, although there hasn’t been one since 1972 and comparing seemingly ancient election results like these are admittedly apples and oranges. Richard Nixon carried everywhere but Massachusetts and the District...