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Did New Jersey Miss the Wave?
November 7, 2014 1 Comment
By James Pezzullo | The Save Jersey Blog
Election Night has come and passed and, by the grace of God, Harry Reid is now relegated to the office of Senate Minority Leader. However, one question seems to be on everyone’s mind: did New Jersey, home of perhaps the night’s biggest winner – Chris Christie – manage to completely miss the tidal wave of Republican victory that swept the nation?
The case for a “yes” is clear. The night’s ticket-topping race for the US Senate was won handily by Cory Booker. While it’s true that Jeff Bell outperformed his polls by 2 points, New Jersey polling in recent years has shown a Democratic bias – 3.2 points in 2013 and 4.5 points in 2008. While not 100% constant, a Republican outperforming the polls is to be expected in New Jersey.
There are several counterpoints down the ballot, however.
Tom MacArthur cruised to a 10-point win over Aimee Belgard. Scott Garrett swatted away what was supposed to be a strong challenge from Democrat Roy Cho by the same margin as 2012’s Adam Gussen (13 points), and in the 2nd district Frank LoBiondo laid a 25-point smackdown on challenger Bill Hughes. Cho and Hughes – both anointed by Democrats as the chosen ones who would finally unseat entrenched Congressmen – both came up with at or below average performances against the two veteran Republicans. Burlington and Monmouth’s GOPs came up with wins in their competitive Freeholder races, Ocean County Republicans took care of business across the board (as my good friend Bill Kuncken wrote about right here on Save Jersey) and, in general, it was a good night to be a Republican.
What gives?
https://savejersey.com/2014/11/did-new-jersey-miss-the-wave/
NJ is a big union state – in addition to destroying industries and state economies, unions also vote Democrat. How do you think Whitman raided the state pension fund ? Tacit union approval in return for pension enhancements, that’s how. The recent election is proof that there is still a deal in place between unions and democrats in NJ. State & local taxpayers are the losers as a result. That’s why you have 75% YoY growth in +$100K public pensioners and net migration from the state, in addition to a weak economic recovery that lags NY, CT and PA. The union/democrat bloc is killing the NJ economy.