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I think this is what she was referring to www.wric.com/news/politic...

I really need to import the Homeowner Renter & commuter data into Dra to make a council map.

Because (with some Exceptions) that has a lot of explicative qualities www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It is the rough boundary of East Jersey v West Jersey (South v North now) westjersey.org/wj_line.htm

It's a Remnant of "Everyone lives on the Turnpike (sometimes called by out of staters I-95)"

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I covered the race more in depth here, more full Gov maps to come in the coming days. sageoftime101.substack.com/p/all-politi...

Major props to Nick Garber on the other site without whom this map wouldn't be possible x.com/nick_garber/...

Per Coltin, this is the earliest a presumptive speaker has been able to declare victory, with Mid-December to Early January being a more typical date to find out whom the speaker is since the position was instituted in 1990 x.com/JCColtin/sta...

This comes as a blow to progressive forces on the council, & Zohran Mamdani's incoming administration as Menin has positioned herself as a "check" on the Mamdani administration — a position that allowed her to lock up the support of the GOP conference.

as John posted, yeah, it was anticlimactic. The 2018 primary was similarly anti-climactic, as was the 2024 NJ Senate & Presidential Primaries (though they may be instructive).

Then there have basically been no competitive primaries in Essex or Mercer (outside of a few off-the-line primaries)

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In the end, the Democratic candidate's appeals — and Sherrill winning the seat in the gubernatorial Election by a strong 11.3% — allowed them to win the most ancestrally GOP legislative district in the state, only underperforming Governor-Elect Sherrill's performance by 3.3%

Kearney campaigned on his having been a former police detective, his responsiveness to constituents and how he'd fight anyone to 'cut costs on utilities, prescription drugs and healthcare'

with both Macurdy and Kearney mentioning how they'll be independent thinkers in Trenton — even if the latter was bankrolled by Senate President Nick Scutari —

Macurdy also campaigned on his record as a prosecutor, emphasizing how he took down criminals and 'worked to bring police and mental health workers together for crisis calls' — mentioning that it was this type of common sense solutions that he would bring to Trenton.

But they were met with two well funded barrages from Macurdy and Kearney, with the former criticizing the incumbents for voting against funding NJ Transit and common sense gun control measures — popular in this federally Democratic District.

Here, while the Republican incumbents campaigned on their work on domestic violence, they also sought to attack their Democratic Challengers as Soft on Crime — highlighting MaCurdy 'cutting plea-deals with violent criminals' as a prosecutor & Kearney's raising taxes while on the Garwood council

With Muñoz and Matsikoudis's past record of winning tough races, few sought to take them on — with only Macurdy and Kearney rising to the challenge.