@tomas_s242 “I’m a liberal who supports gay people except when I’m using gayness as an insult”
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Ignatius J. Reilly
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Ignatius J. Reilly
@MittRomney_stan
NJ moderate conservative * mostly here to look at maps/data * I have the occasional mildly intelligent comment
Katılım Nisan 2022
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we all talk about lindsay graham being closeted but have we ever looked at this guy
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@upzonenj If you’re a Democrat, then yes. She wouldn’t give up Princeton or Plainfield in redistricting just so her district could be 65% Dem instead of 60% Dem. And because those towns would back her strongly if she were primaried.
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Bonnie Watson Coleman is not so secretly a villain.
Joey Fox@joeymdfox
Could New Jersey, which has thus far stayed out of the national redistricting war, redraw its congressional maps after all? @GovSherrillNJ is sounding open to the possibility; here’s more on what it might look like if she tries. newjerseyglobe.com/redistricing/s…
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@PatrickRuffini Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson 2028, baby
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Things are getting to a point where you begin to wonder if there’s an opening for a radical anti-partisan in 2028–and maybe even a third party performance rivaling Ross Perot.
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@jmaxmann Whitman was likely the worst governor NJ has had since the Great Depression and as EPA director claimed the air in Lower Manhattan was safe to breath after 9/11 (it wasn't). But she doesn't like Trump and endorses Democrats, so now she's celebrated.
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Is Christine Todd Whitman acting as Mamandi’s economic advisor?
John Arnold@johnarnold
Deferring pension contributions is the Pandora's box of municipal finance, where a seemingly harmless action unleashes a legacy of complications. Once that seal is broken, NYC will start the descent into the same liability-fueled spiral that has hollowed out so many other cities.
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@Indyboy495 @lauren_peller @SpeakerJohnson Hyperpartisan libs claiming to support gay people and then using “gay” as an insult displays a delicious lack of self awareness
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@lauren_peller Rehab is a good theory; he’s incapacitated, & must be removed from his seat, but @SpeakerJohnson doesn’t want to lose majority. Maggot party in the house comprised of alcoholics, sexual & domestic abusers, racists. Speaker Mike Johnson, a closeted gay, is perfectly OK with that.
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Speaker Johnson said in a statement provided to ABC News that he spoke to NJ GOP Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. by phone on Thursday, and that he is dealing with an unspecified "personal health matter” and “expects to be back to 100% very soon.”
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@danieljohnbryan @wildstein The state’s “a leg tapped at both ends” by Philly and NYC as Ben Franklin once said, and the population is relatively transient. People move here from elsewhere then move away when they retire.
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"New Jersey may be the largest news desert in the nation" - @wildstein this morning, and he's right
How is it possible that a state of 9.5m residents, the 2nd wealthiest state in the US and top 10 most educated, has such a weak media economy?
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@davidslosttt I would unpack the NW Jersey district a little and make the Bergen County/NE district more competitive. NJ is a blue state, but not overwhelmingly so. A 7-5 map best reflects the statewide party preferences.
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If anyone wants to suggest changes to this map, let me know and I’ll review it instead of just saying it’s bad
David@davidslosttt
This should just be the national congressional map and we can be done with it, but instead we have to deal with these incessant redistricting wars because politicians can't let go of their own power
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@bayshore_beagle @PurpleHeartMan I agree about Murphy. But more than staleness, I think Jack's issue was that many voters still didn't know who he was in 2025 despite his years of campaigning! And that allowed Sherrill to define him as a opioid promoting, pedophile protecting, tax raising Trump imitator.
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@MittRomney_stan @PurpleHeartMan He was too stale by 2025 was much easier running against liberal covid enforcer plutocrat Murphy vs the somewhat more moderate and fresh Sherrill
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@PurpleHeartMan 4) Sherrill (veteran and prosecutor) was more likable than Jack (businessman). I also think Jack was just a poor candidate. Sure, he was very hardworking, but he had been running for governor essentially since 2015 and still let Sherrill define him as a MAGA creep. 2/2
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@PurpleHeartMan 1) Sherrill ran a very aggressive campaign, seriously stretching the truth about Jack's record; 2) Jack did himself no favors by running as more of a MAGA Republican than he did in 2021; 3) WWC and Latino voters swung back toward Dems; 1/2
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@MicahJRasmussen It was a Trump era special election on a Thursday in April and she put up a relatively weak showing in her home county.
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Electoral coalitions do shift, but what cannot be denied is that no candidate for federal or statewide office has carried NJ11 by a bigger margin than Mejia's 19.5 percent since Rodney Frelinghuysen's 25.2 percent win over Mark Dunec in 2014.
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@MattRooneyNJ @JonBramnick It was a special election on a Thursday in April with very low turnout, a Republican in the WH, and cross-over voting all but dead in federal elections. Every needs to just calm down lol
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Joe Kyrillos lost in 2012 by 20 points.
Kim Guadagno lost in 2017 by 15 points.
Hugin in 2018? 12.
The list of double-digits losses extends back three decades!
Trump in 24? Just 5 points.
So maybe... just maybe, @JonBramnick, the problem is the NJGOP? Perhaps look in a mirror?
Jon Bramnick@JonBramnick
Joe Hathaway was a terrific candidate. He suffered a “Jack type loss”. This was another example of passion against the Trump administration. The “jack type losses” will continue until voters are convinced we are the “New Jersey Republican Party” with our historic principles.
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@ChazNuttycombe Andy Ogles for being a complete asshole while representing a slice of gerrymandered-to-hell Nashville.
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@ChazNuttycombe Brian Fitzpatrick survived 2018 but may get subsumed by the coming Shapiro landslide.
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I do wonder what the 2026 equivalent of these could be but 2018 was such a big part of the Trump realignment. I don't think there's any congressional R who won re-election by double digits in 2024 who could lose by double digits.
vo@vanillaopinions
this was also crazy
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@ECaliberSeven If you watch the show, you see that Luke is a manipulative creep with women.
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Frelinghuysen was (and is) an institution in NJ. Crazy to see the Essex portion was Lean D in 2016
Niles Francis@NilesGApol
NJ-11 2016 —> 2018. Not sure what happened to that”Mikie” lady but Jesus what an insane shift in a single cycle
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@NilesGApol Rodney had been the congressman forever and was fairly popular until a Trump era resist lib group in the district started calling him out for not holding town hall meetings.
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NJ-11 2016 —> 2018. Not sure what happened to that”Mikie” lady but Jesus what an insane shift in a single cycle
James🗳@_fat_ugly_rat_
2018 was insane in the suburbs imagine winning almost 60% of the vote and then instantly losing reelection the next cycle
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