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I recently had a long overdue dinner with several friends that I grew up and went to college with. The group comprised of a very mixed…

Abraham Lincoln won four electoral votes in New Jersey in 1860, with three electors pledged to a fusion ticket that would back one of three Democrats…

Abraham Lincoln lost New Jersey when he ran for re-election to a second term in 1864. New Jersey’s seven electoral votes went to George McClellan, a…

The only president born in New Jersey was Grover Cleveland, whose bid for the White House came after he had been elected mayor of Buffalo and…

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…

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…

This story was originally published on December 23, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris, the last-minute replacement on the Democratic ticket for President Joe Biden, won the…

For some time, presidential primaries in New Jersey were nothing more than beauty contests where the preferred candidate of a voter was deemed so unimportant that…

New Jersey loved Warren Harding. In the 1920 presidential election, Harding won 68% of the vote in New Jersey.  He won all 21 counties, and the…

The ongoing unrest in Minnesota has brought renewed attention to a rarely invoked law dating back to 1807. The Insurrection Act allows the President to deploy…