[Exit148]

My little conservative town --- which has an unpaid Mayor and Council who don't run on any party platform ---- who used to be staunchly conservative, went for Gore. Gads! It must have been the SoccerMoms, or they caught the liberal bug from arty Montclair.

[Katana16j]

what the...

Something to conider is that NJ is a distinct state stuck in between the orbit of NYC and philly. A good percantage of the populace are "weekday" urbanites, and these people usually cause sdo much ruckus durng elections that no one really bothers to opposse them. When energized however the (full-time) suburban and rural folks can do really surprising things in the state.

Remember that NJ is the most densely populated patch of earth on the planet (yes, we beat out China AND india), with a strange semi-rural environment. We truly are a queer little state and can be shifted very wildly, however there is the NYC, philly axis which no one really tries to fight and generelly Jerseyites end up screwed by it.

[Clemenza]

I was SHOCKED, SHOCKED I TELL YOU when my father's hometown of Newark, my mom's hometown of Jersey City and the city of my birth (New Brunwick) went for Gore by double digit margins /sarcasm.

I was just plain pissed off that my home county (Nassau, where I was raised) in New York went for Clinton twice, then the Goreon, despite once being one of the most Republican counties in the state.