Democratic NJ State Sen. Jeff Van Drew has ruled out a challenge to Republican Rep. Frank LoBiondo in November [link].
With Van Drew out, and LoBiondo’s popularity as high as ever, NJ-02 is guaranteed a Republican win again.  CNN can project that right now.
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Stanford Law professor, Lawrence Lessig, has been up to his usual awesomeness.
A few months ago he rolled out two excellent slide shows on why he supports Barack Obama (here and here).  I definitely recommend checking these out… they are both reasoned and persuasive.
My own introduction to Lessig’s work was through a different slide show on [...]

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John McCain is the experienced presidential candidate.  Though Sen. Clinton’s shot at taking the nomination is very dim at this point, the ‘experienced candidate’ message she has worked so hard to put out there is quite simply wrong… and continuing to use ‘experience’ as the primary basis to measure her candidacy will only end in [...]

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