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1. Voting machine problems force Middletown, N.J. to use the paper ballot
(N.J./State)

... counted. Well, I got my wish today. The voting machines in Middletown, N.J., went a bit haywire at my polling place and paper ballots were the norm. I sensed that this Election Day would be different ...

2. Voting by email in hurricane-damaged N.J. could cause major migraine
(Opinion/Commentary)

... (that loud, bulky machine that most of use to store our tablets in) and email in response to the widespread damages and flooding left over from Hurricane Sandy that sadly has rendered hundreds of polling ...

3. Christie allows early voting, paper ballots: Kickin' it 'old school'
(Opinion/Commentary)

... could be open for business as Christie said paper ballots would be available on Election Day. But according to Christie, the National Guard will protect trucks set up at these makeshift polling stations ...

4. Not sure where to vote? You can find out via a text message
(N.J./State)

... immediately receive a response with their polling location. ...

5. New Jersey makes plans for makeshift voting places; deploys military trucks to serve as polling places
(N.J./State)

... in the state’s 3,000 polling places whose regular voting machines were destroyed or are without power. According to the Associated Press, Governor Christie announced that the application to apply for ...

6. Do the 2012 presidential polls really matter?
(U.S./Nation)

... attention do they really deserve? Presidential historian David Greenberg, an associate professor of journalism and media studies and of history, and Cliff Zukin, a national expert on opinion polling, ...

7. Mitt Romney gaining back women's vote, according to new poll
(U.S./Nation)

BY GINA G. SCALA NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The final countdown is a dozen days away, but the polling gaps between President Barrack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney are tapering. Romney, the former ...

8. Biden vs. Ryan debate has consequences....now hit the reset button
(Opinion/Commentary)

... is the director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.  ...

9. Romney passes Obama in polls, seizing debate momentum
(U.S./Nation)

... not change their minds. 41 percent are certain they will vote for Obama, according to Tuesday’s results. Post-debate polling shows that Romney and the president are within two points of each other in ...

10. Christie faces more backlash in FY 2014 budget talks
(Opinion/Commentary)

... doing violence to other critical programs in the budget. So far, at least, the Democrats seem to have public opinion on their side with polling data revealing a majority in favor of the wait-and-see ...

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

... of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. Obama, who won New Jersey by nearly 16 points four years ago, held a wider lead in a July poll. No Republican has won the Garden State in nearly 25 years, ...

12. Threat of longshoremen strike has N.J./N.Y. port officials urging renegotiation
(N.J./State)

... Mitt Romney. It’s more likely to play out as a positive for Republicans,” Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute said, noting declining public sentiment towards unions.  ...

13. Why Gov. Chris Christie's keynote was a success
(Opinion/Commentary)

... director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. RECENT COLUMNS BY PATRICK MURRAY Chris Christie as potential Romney running mate could account for poll disparities Are Obama and Christie really ...

14. N.J. school board campaigns must get more political
(Opinion/Commentary)

... pollster. “Candidates will have to start polling and targeting voters, doing more door-to-door canvassing, sending direct mail, and making better use of social media.” “Putting school board candidates ...

15. 'The Campaign' movie review, trailer: Ferrell and Galifianakis's funny antics can't match real-life politics
(Entertainment/Movies)

... jungle, though, the billionaire Motch brothers are perturbed by Cam’s plunging polling. They need a safer placeholder, or office-holder, to turn his district into their latest score. Like modern American ...

16. Is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie a bully?
(N.J./State)

... still gossip about the idea, but New Jerseyans think Christie would be a bad choice for VP," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, states Reuters. Critics as ...

17. College students pass on dorm rooms to cut spending
(Money/Economy)

... survey by student lender Sallie Mae and the polling firm Ipsos, it is not just working class and middle class families struggling to cough up funds for college. Households with incomes of more than $100,000 ...

18. Gas prices may drop below $3 a gallon in time for holidays
(Money/Economy)

... week," Michael Green says, a spokesman for AAA. President Obama can also expect the falling gas prices to give him and other incumbents support, explained Dennis Jacobe of Gallup, the polling organization. ...

19. Failure of Obama’s economic policy may bring Romney a win
(Opinion/Commentary)

... on “Vote for me because I’m not him.” While presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has remained mindful of this bit of conventional wisdom, some polling results suggest that an increasing ...

20. Marco Rubio 'benched': Would Chris Christie answer Mitt Romney's VP call?
(U.S./Nation)

... Restore Our Future, a super PAC supporting Romney, in New York City. The event is part fundraiser and part strategy as well as polling briefing. By law, the presumptive nominee’s campaign cannot coordinate ...