Brigid C. Harrison

March 4, 2008 - 6:58pm

New Jersey Dems cozy up to Texas and Ohio

Tags: Jon Corzine, Richard Codey, Cory Booker, Mark Alexander, Barack Obama, Ray Lesniak, Hillary Clinton, John Graham, Ron Rice, Shirley Turner, Joe Cryan, Grace Spencer, Bob Menendez, Bill Pascrell, Jose Torres, Brigid C. Harrison

Clinton supporter from left, U.S. Rep. Donald Payne, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, and U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone

Mark Alexander assumed the familiar posture this week of a man with a phone in his hand making calls for presidential candidate Barack Obama. This time, however, the scenery was different, as he occupied unfamiliar territory on the other side of the Delaware River somewhere in a mid-western American state called Ohio, a rust-belt cousin of New Jersey.

"It’s raining," the former Jersey state director for the Obama campaign told PoltickerNJ.com in a 30-second conversation between calls, where Obama and his Democratic Party rival Sen. Hillary Clinton are competing today as well as in three other primary states: Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont.

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