TRENTON TREND: NJ OFF-YEAR GOVERNOR ELECTIONS - COINCIDENCE OR PATTERN?
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Bruce Carlson
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:34.8 | About 67% of the time, the party opposite the White House wins the New Jersey election. 33% of the time, the same party who has the White House wins the New Jersey and you're not getting something for nothing, you're not getting your fair share. |
| 1:15.0 | Governor Brendan Byrne. |
| 1:18.4 | New Jersey gubernatorial elections, that is, elections for governor, over the course of its history from the 19th century to the present even, have this similar |
| 1:32.2 | dynamic, a little less than it used to be, urban versus suburban and rural, particularly if you're |
| 1:38.7 | going to go from the mid-19th century to the later part of the 20th century, the dynamic is always seems to involve Jersey |
| 1:49.7 | City. |
| 1:50.1 | In fact, just in the recent election for governor, we had a Jersey City mayor that ran in |
| 1:55.6 | the primary. |
| 1:57.0 | And Jersey City and the county that it's in Hudson County, you know, for a long period was seen as the center of machine politics. |
| 2:05.6 | It still has some of that legacy today. |
| 2:07.7 | Even today, in places like Jersey City or Hoboken, these are very vibrant communities with lots of people having sometimes moved in from the suburbs or other |
| 2:19.9 | places and bringing a different kind of civic ethic to things but there's still seen as a little |
| 2:27.8 | bit of a machine organization place you know i had once lived in the town hoboken which anyone anyone in the New York area is going to know is a very, |
| 2:37.4 | continues to be a very popular place to live. |
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