High-Income Whites Put Booker Over the Top
By Rick Shaftan | The Save Jersey Blog
It’s not often that a Republican wins Wallington, South Hackensack, Lyndhurst, Ridgefield and Rochelle Park and loses Oradell, Old Tappan, Norwood, Woodcliff Lake and Northvale but that’s what happened in this month’s U.S. Senate election.
Comparing the 2013 special with the 2012 presidential reveals some interesting comparisons.
Statewide, Lonegan ran 4 percent ahead of Mitt Romney – enough to have elected Romney had he run that much better nationwide. But Bergen County was one place where Lonegan actually ran behind Romney.
That’s news to people South of Route 4 where the former Bogota Mayor exceeded the 2012 Romney percentage by 10 points in Ridgefield, 11 points in Palisades Park, 12 points in Bogota and 16 points in South Hackensack.
But go North of 4 to the traditionally Republican part of the county and there’s a different story. Lonegan dropped 14 points behind Romney’s 52 percent in Booker’s home town of Harrington Park, 13 points behind Romney’s 63 percent in Old Tappan and 10 points behind Romney’s 57 percent in Woodcliff Lake.
Lonegan’s drop from 28 to 17 percent in Teaneck is heavily caused by a major drop in the GOP vote share among Orthodox Jews. Mitt Romney won 58 percent of the vote in the four big Teaneck Orthodox districts (9, 10, 11 and 12) compared with just 28 percent for Lonegan, turning a 514 vote Obama deficit into a 749 vote Booker margi
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This is no surprise. Republicans in northern Bergen County are moderates, not extreme conservatives. Their views are more in line with Romney and not Lonegan.
Republicans will not win in wealthy suburbs like this if they choose to run very conservative candidates.
This is no surprise.
Most realize they are overpaid for the actual work they do (and they know it) and try to find ways to assuage their guilt by supporting socialist policies.
Booker won in the Northern and Pascack Valley towns because he’s from that area (Harrington Park.)
Not a mandate by any means.
Imagine if the GOP had a real candidate. Cory would be relegated back to his old job of “running” Newark.
You are comparing two losers.
#2 you sound like a complete fool.
you think I’m wrong? Now who’s the one being foolish…
the truth stings sometimes.
So which party is the party of the rich?