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1. Christie talks ethics, middle-class reform at Howell Town Hall
(N.J./State)

... that have yet to go through the New Jersey state legislature. Currently, the Democrats are the majority party in both Houses. In the Senate, there are 24 Democrats and 16 Republicans and in the General ...

2. Mayor Tony Mack scandal: Skills that Trenton’s next mayor should possess
(Opinion/Commentary)

... deathblow Mitt Romney's cheap shot at Jimmy Carter shows why he will lose to President Obama Republicans and Democrats must compromise to avoid political system crash  ...

3. Election 2012: Swing state economies vary by wide margins
(Money/Economy)

... The Democrats just wound up their national convention there this past week, bumping up temporary employment in Charlotte slightly and hoping to keep the state in the Obama column in November. Ohio, Wisconsin, ...

4. Sen. Richard Codey delivers torpedo against N.J. political bosses
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY CARL GOLDEN COMMENTARY While most of the state’s leading Democratic figures were in Charlotte, awash in the enthusiasm and euphoria of the party’s national convention, Essex County State Sen. Dick ...

5. Poll: Mitt Romney gets boost in N.J. polls post-convention
(N.J./State)

BY GINA G. SCALA NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM According to a recent poll, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has narrowed a previously wide gap in Democratic stronghold New Jersey. "Gov. Mitt ...

6. Weak jobs report follows DNC as Obama, Democrats fight back
(U.S./Nation)

BY ADELE SAMMARCO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM As Barack Obama officially accepted his party’s nomination Thursday at the grand finale of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, the United States ...

7. Mitt Romney tax return uproar: Hacked or hoaxed?
(U.S./Nation)

... had said encrytped tax records were delivered on flash drives to the county Democratic and Republican offices. According to CNN, both offices surrendered the contents to the Secret Service. The hackers ...

8. '2016: Obama's America' is top grossing documentary of the year
(Entertainment/Movies)

... new releases. The continued audience demand and success drives another theater expansion to around 2,000 screens this coming weekend.” Even as Democrats cheer on President Obama at their National Convention ...

9. If Cory Booker was governor, gay marriage would be done deal
(N.J./State)

... on his future by December. Some Democrats believe he is their best option against Governor Christie. RELATED Cory Booker speech at DNC: Did he out-Jersey Chris Christie? Booker spoke out against ...

10. Bill Clinton slayed Obama myths at DNC
(Opinion/Commentary)

... President Obama and the Democrats. After all, President Eisenhower sent federal troops to my home state to integrate Little Rock Central High and built the interstate highway system. And as governor, I ...

11. Cory Booker speech at DNC: Did he out-Jersey Chris Christie?
(N.J./State)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Newark Mayor Cory Booker spoke to a crowd at the Democratic National Convention shortly after spraining an ankle on his way to the speech Tuesday morning, and then ...

12. Bill Clinton's DNC speech laced into GOP for 48 minutes
(U.S./Nation)

BY ADELE SAMMARCO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM On day two of the 46th Democratic National Convention in North Carolina, political insiders say Bill Clinton re-energized the base and at the same time, electrified ...

13. Maybe Christie's 'Thunder Road' Springsteen cover with Jimmy Fallon can boost polls (VIDEO)
(N.J./State)

... Democratic National Convention that was interrupted by applause so many times that it ran about five minutes too long. A Rutgers-Eagleton poll said 47 percent of registered voters in New Jersey are willing ...

14. The 'Alice in Wonderland' of campaign finance law
(Opinion/Commentary)

... to Life. In response, the FEC adopted new regulations that same year resulting in limited disclosure by groups undertaking issue ads. In 2011, a Democratic congressman from Maryland filed a new legal ...

15. First Lady Michelle Obama's DNC speech balanced power and emotion
(U.S./Nation)

... delegates at the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina. Re-energizing the room with resiliency and hope, she advised, “We can give everyone a fair share of that great American dream.” And ...

16. The question President Barack Obama and the DNC cannot answer for you
(U.S./Nation)

BY ADELE SAMMARCO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM As the Democrats prepare for their national convention in Charlotte, North Carolina Tuesday, the 32-year-old question that still lingers for incumbent Presidents ...

17. Mayor Cory Booker misspells 'Barack' Obama before DNC speech
(U.S./Nation)

... by the camps of presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, Newark Mayor Cory Booker needed to try spell check on an Obama ad he ran at the Democratic National Convention.  Booker, who ...

18. ‘Jersey Shore’ gone but tattoos here to stay
(N.J./State)

...  difference. Men and women are equally as likely to have tattoos. Republicans (15 percent) are five points less likely to have tattoos than Democrats, and six points less likely than independents. A ...

19. U.S. Labor Secretary Solis: Honor vets by hiring them
(Opinion/Commentary)

... The best way to honor our veterans is to hire them. Hilda Solis is the 25th U.S. Secretary of Labor and a former Democratic Congresswoman.  ...

20. Indian Point: Fact and fiction for New Jersey
(Opinion/Commentary)

... community that generated it. It is un-American and certainly undemocratic to try to impose it on a community that does not want it.  So called reprocessing is not an option.  ...