James Dowden, a Democrat who spent twenty years as the popular Mayor of heavily-Republican Bridgewater, still shows interest in running for State Senator in the 1th district next year. Republicans are facing a possible primary between longtime incumbent Walter Kavanaugh and Assemblyman Christopher Bateman. Somerset County showed some signs of shifting toward the Democrats this week: U.S. Senator Robert Menendez won 48% of the vote in Somerset County and Democratic Freeholder candidates came within about 1,500 votes of winning. Dowden was the Mayor from 1973 until his retirement in 2003.
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The same thing happened in Somerset during Watergate and look ho
The same thing happened in Somerset during Watergate and look how that turned out for the Democrats in the long-term.
The fact that two reliably Republican counties - Monmouth and Burlington - lost countywide races to candidates with much less gravitas than the Democrats that ran in Somerset only proves how solid a Republican county Somerset is.
(To anticipate objections, yes, I know Republicans can't carry Burlington on a statewide level, but the fact remains it has been solid on the county level.)
The same thing happened in Somerset during Watergate and look ho
The same thing happened in Somerset during Watergate and look how that turned out for the Democrats in the long-term.
The fact that two reliably Republican counties - Monmouth and Burlington - lost countywide races to candidates with much less gravitas than the Democrats that ran in Somerset only proves how solid a Republican county Somerset is.
(To anticipate objections, yes, I know Republicans can't carry Burlington on a statewide level, but the fact remains it has been solid on the county level.)
(sorry for the double post)
(sorry for the double post)