[Alberta's Child]

Two New Jersey Congressional districts flipped to Republican.

You might want to delete this and post it correctly. It is patently false. There were NO Congressional elections in New Jersey in 2019.

Two things happened in New Jersey this week:

1. There were no regular state Senate elections, but there was one special election to replace a former Democratic state Senator who had left the Senate when he won a formerly Republican seat in the U.S. House of Representative. The Republican won this special election.

2. The Democrats came into this election with large majorities in both the Senate and the Assembly. They lost one Senate seat in the aforementioned special election. Some of the Assembly races are too close to call, but it looks like the GOP has picked up 2 to 5 seats in the Assembly.

These aren't huge victories, since the Democrats still hold majorities in both houses of the legislature.

[Political Junkie Too]

Thanks. I mixed that up. It was state house races. I will be sure to correct that in future postings.

Still, I will stand by my point that Republicans winning anything in New Jersey is movement. Whether it's a bellwether of anything is yet to be seen (Torricelli/Lautenberg/Menendez finally taking its toll?).

-PJ