NEW BRUNSWICK – You’d probably have to go back to 1992 to find a presidential general election year in which New Jersey played a truly pivotal role. 2008 was big for New Jersey, too, in recent times, but as a primary election year, and on a different schedule than currently exists.
Now, as 2028 presidential hopefuls elbow their way in here to stand next to Mikie Sherrill, what happens in ten days will in part determine New Jersey’s political role in the national strategy going forward.
General election battleground or cash cow?
2008 was interesting and exciting.
Those who were there remember sitting between Robert DeNiro and Barack Obama in the Meadowlands, then getting crammed in a diner with Chelsea Clinton.
It was the Democratic Primary.
Obama stunned Hillary Clinton in Iowa.
Then…
