[ZULU]

Correct. Any Republican who can arry New Jersey in a Presidential Election can’t be a Republican.

The fact that Clinton beats out McCain but Obama doesn’t reflects the very serious racial divides in New Jersey which has one of the largest minority populations in America and one of the most Democratic.

[ari-freedom]

in other words, a real republican is someone who loses elections. Reagan can't be a real republican because he won New Jersey, NY and California.

[Republican Wildcat]

Any Republican who can arry New Jersey in a Presidential Election can’t be a Republican.

Such as Ronald Reagan... Sarcasm aside, actually New Jersey usually always voted GOP - it didn't switch over until 1992.

Here's a good resource to look at electoral maps from elections past: http://www.presidentelect.org/e1988.html

[Fishrrman]

“The fact that Clinton beats out McCain but Obama doesn’t reflects the very serious racial divides in New Jersey which has one of the largest minority populations in America and one of the most Democratic.”

This would tend to verify Robert Putnam’s assertions in “Bowling Alone” that in areas of mixed cultures and ethnic groups, people of one group are, by and large, distrustful of those of other ethnic groups.

Unlike the whites of, say - Iowa or Vermont (lily-white states), those in New Jersey have learned from experience about the conflicts between groups other than their own. They won’t be as predisposed to faint for the Obamessiah.

- John