“The race to unseat Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) subsequent 12 months is pitting a third-term congressman in opposition to the governor’s spouse, who has secured the backing of a lot of New Jersey’s unusually highly effective Democratic machine since she introduced final week,” the Washington Publish reviews.
Why it issues: “In New Jersey, the endorsements of county chairs — akin to Paul Juliano of Bergen County, LeRoy Jones Jr. of Essex County and Kevin McCabe of Middlesex County — in addition to energy brokers like George E. Norcross III of South Jersey maintain appreciable weight. That’s as a result of a candidate with county endorsements sometimes receives preferential poll placement underneath the state’s county line system.”