[wideawake]

Those four cities comprise about 5.5% of NJ's population.

The six towns of Toms River, Hamilton, Gloucester, Middletown, Brick and Old Bridge have about the same population.

The real problem for the GOP in NJ is not the 15% black population.

It is the large number of liberals in the 75% of the population that is white.

That white population is almost evenly split between socially conservative/fiscally quasi-liberal Catholics and socially quasi-liberal/fiscally conservative Protestants.

There is a reason why almost every successful NJ Republican is a pro-abort - that stance cements the country-club mainline Protestant base of the NJ GOP.

[goldstategop]

The success of the pro-life GOP ticket blows a hole in the RINO theory. A ticket with a socially conservative, pro life mom should not have any appeal to New Jersey voters. Yet if the polls are to believed, half of them are attracted to the GOP. What was that again about the GOP winning if it sold out it pro-life position just to win an election?

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus