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LBJ, Nixon swept all 21 New Jersey counties

February 16, 2026 12:13 amFebruary 15, 2026 8:29 pm

Just 22,091 votes separated John F. Kennedy from Richard M. Nixon in the contest for New Jersey’s sixteen electoral votes in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy won 50% to Nixon’s 49%, but Nixon carried 14 of New Jersey’s 21 counties....

The Watcher: North Arlington schools want to take a building from a church using eminent domain

June 25, 2025 5:42 amJuly 13, 2025 4:31 pm

Is there such a thing as Eminence Domain? This could be the start of a joke – five school board members are standing at the pearly gates – except that the brewing legal and political battle between the North Arlington...

Arango re-elected Hudson GOP Chairman

June 24, 2025 7:19 pmJune 25, 2025 1:20 pm

Hudson County GOP Chairman Jose Arango was re-elected tonight without opposition to a post he’s held since 2000. Arango, a former assemblyman, is the longest-serving Republican county chairman in the state. He first served in 1989, and again since 2000. ...

Rodino was on short list of Carter running mates in ’76

December 29, 2024 4:49 pm

When Jimmy Carter picked Walter Mondale as the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1976, a New Jersey congressman was also a finalist. After Carter clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, campaign manager Hamilton Jordan began to develop a list of potential...

LBJ, Nixon swept all 21 New Jersey counties

February 19, 2024 12:12 amFebruary 16, 2025 4:02 pm

Just 22,091 votes separated John F. Kennedy from Richard M. Nixon in the contest for New Jersey’s sixteen electoral votes in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy won 50% to Nixon’s 49%, but Nixon carried 14 of New Jersey’s 21 counties....

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...

Bob Dole, former presidential candidate, dies at 98

December 5, 2021 2:02 pmDecember 5, 2021 2:18 pm

Robert J. Dole, a former U.S. Senate Majority Leader and the 1996 Republican presidential nominee, died on Sunday. He was 98. Dole was on the ballot three times in New Jersey during a political career that spanned from his election...