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RockyMin 11 points ago +11 / -0

Wait a minute, I thought I read that they were Republican ballots. Or is that headline twisted? 'voters in heavily Democratic suburbs' doesn't necessarily mean actual democratic voters.

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324jl 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's the suburbs. Suburban white women are like 60%+ for Biden, while the males are like 60%+ for Trump.

Also, being that they're mail in ballots, they'd be mostly democrat and democrat-leaning independent voters. Except for the fact that NJ has basically cancelled in person voting.

I think I heard it's West Orange NJ? If that's the case, it went 73% for Clinton in 2016:

https://www.nj.com/news/2016/11/how_your_town_voted_in_the_2016_presidential_election.html

Surprisingly, there's a few towns/suburbs in NJ that were around 95% Clinton. Very fishy, especially considering the dense urban (minority majority) areas were only 80% or 90% Clinton.

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RockyMin 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yeah, I know. I lived most of my life in NJ. It's a democrat stronghold. Yet strangely enough, in my time there, I believe there were more Republican governors than democratic.

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324jl 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's what happens when the election for Governor falls on a year they don't cheat. Christie was close the first time (2009), got 60% of the vote the second time (2013), but Murphy got 56% in 2017?

Democrats, always with the dirty tricks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Guadagno#Hoboken_Sandy_funds

That's probably why Murphy beat her, because the name was tarnished in their minds.