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A look at federal, county and municipal races in Cape May County in 2026

July 21, 2026 2:35 pmJuly 21, 2026 4:31 pm

Cape May, New Jersey’s southernmost county, has been one of the Republican Party’s most reliable sources of votes for more than 160 years. Abraham Lincoln lost the county in 1860 but carried it in 1864, beginning a Republican presidential streak...

Wilson helped New Jersey Democrats sweep in 1912, then lost home state in 1916

February 16, 2026 12:11 amFebruary 15, 2026 8:18 pm

Democrat Woodrow Wilson remains the only New Jerseyan to win the presidency, but the former governor of New Jersey only carried New Jersey in one of his two White House bids. Wilson was elected in 1912, at the end of...

N.J. Presidential Trivia

February 16, 2026 12:01 amFebruary 15, 2026 7:57 pm

Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Frank Lautenberg hold the record for the most appearances on a New Jersey general election ballot as a major party nominee: five times each. Roosevelt ran for Vice President in 1920 and President in 1932,...

Wilson helped New Jersey Democrats sweep in 1912, then lost home state in 1916

February 17, 2025 12:10 amFebruary 16, 2025 3:50 pm

Democrat Woodrow Wilson remains the only New Jerseyan to win the presidency, but the former governor of New Jersey only carried New Jersey in one of his two White House bids. Wilson was elected in 1912, at the end of...

N.J. Presidential Trivia

February 17, 2025 12:00 amFebruary 17, 2025 4:13 pm

Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Frank Lautenberg hold the record for the most appearances on a New Jersey general election ballot as a major party nominee: five times each. Roosevelt ran for Vice President in 1920 and President in 1932,...

The Baraka Plan Reimagined: How N.J. Governor’s races played out in even years

December 15, 2024 3:16 pmDecember 16, 2024 12:46 pm

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka has proposed eliminating odd-year elections, which the modern-day founding fathers opposed explicitly at the 1947 State Constitutional Convention. The idea at the time was to keep elections for governor and the legislature focused on state...

Five N.J. veterans you should know about

November 11, 2024 12:01 amNovember 11, 2024 1:12 pm

One New Jersey war veteran whose legacy remains intact after more than a century was Major General George Washington Goethals, the namesake of the Goethals Bridge. Goethals graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1880 and was...