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NJ-Gov: Corzine in the Lead

By | 10.22.09 | 9:56 am

The new Rutgers-Eagleton poll for New Jersey’s gubernatorial race piles more bad news onto the campaign of Republican candidate Chris Christie, seen just a few months back as the all-but-certain next governor of the state. The topline numbers are bad enough: Christie trails Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) by three More…

The Christie Fade

By | 10.14.09 | 9:01 am

This Quinnipiac poll is the latest to show Republican candidate Chris Christie faltering in his campaign for governor of New Jersey. Christie, who’d risen as high as 47 percent in the poll, is down to 41 percent, one point ahead of Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.). And more ominously, Corzine’s favorable More…

Poll: One in Three New Jersey Conservatives Thinks Obama Might Be the Anti-Christ

By | 09.16.09 | 12:20 pm

Public Policy Polling’s habit of asking revealing, bizarre questions continues with a survey of New Jersey voters that finds—as President Obama’s approval rating dips slightly—only 79 percent of voters ready to rule out the possibility that their president is the Anti-Christ. Eight percent say he is, while 13 percent More…

CREW Goes After Chris Christie

By | 08.17.09 | 12:32 pm

Chris Christie, the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey who has ridden his experience as a U.S. attorney to a healthy lead in the polls, is taking hits from last week’s release of White House memos on the politicization of him and other Bush-appointed attorneys. Now Citizens for Responsibility More…

The New Jersey Gubernatorial Race: Why You Should Care

By | 05.27.09 | 2:28 pm

Attention political junkies — the New Jersey GOP gubernatorial primary is Tuesday. Two reasons you should care, even if you aren’t a Republican and you don’t live in the Garden State:

1) The New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial campaigns are this year’s only major races. There is nowhere else to More…

Ron Paul Elbows Into New Jersey Gubernatorial Race

By | 05.14.09 | 3:46 pm

The increasingly relevant GOP congressman from Texas has emailed his Campaign for Liberty list in support of Steve Lonegan, the more conservative of the two leading candidates in New Jersey’s Republican primary for governor.

Steve Lonegan is strong advocate of free markets. I was very impressed by

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Five Convicted of Conspiracy in Fort Dix Terror Case

By | 12.22.08 | 3:00 pm

CNN reports that a jury has convicted five men for conspiring to bomb American soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J., but acquitted the men of attempted murder. The men, who each face life in prison, are slated for sentencing in April.

Unemployment As Jobs Creation Program

By | 12.09.08 | 12:30 pm

Here’s a headline that’s a sign of the times: “More Workers Needed for NJ Unemployment Claims.”

The Associated Press story, which ran yesterday, goes on to reveal that the state is hiring 130 additional workers to tackle the baglog of claims created by the economic downturn. (New Jersey’s unemployment More…