Real Numbers and Other Musings

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ Today, Governor Chris Christie inserted himself into the national political debate. It wasn’t on repeal of Pre...

This post originally appeared as an Op-Ed in the Star-Ledger . UPDATE: Commission public hearings announced: 1/12-Rutgers Law School in Ne...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ It seems fitting that Chris Christie’s first year as governor wraps up with a snowstorm. That’s how it started...

With the loss of a House seat, members of New Jersey's delegation will each represent 56,000 more people than they do now. Have our Con...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ The national attention on New Jersey’s governor has taken a new turn – now portraying him as the anti-Obama. I...

The clock is ticking for NJN. New Jersey Network. The New Jersey Channel. JerseyVision (yes, it was once called that). Forty years of broad...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ What did we learn from this election? Two things: - Internal campaign polls that make their way into the publi...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ Our latest Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Press Media Poll asked New Jerseyans how much they trust the...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ Much has been made of New Jersey Governor Christ Christie’s initial harangue over the state’s loss of Race to t...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ I recently wrote that a publicly released campaign poll memo was from a message testing survey, with the resul...

Cross-posted at New Jersey Newsroom One of the hardest things for a president to do is to stay in touch with the concerns of everyday folk. ...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ . Numbers matter. Poll results, budget deficits, health statistics. Attach a number to any issue and it becom...

Cross-posted at PolitickerNJ . The political blogosphere recently took note of a poll in New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional district purporting ...

So what’s the deal with the New Jersey homebuyer tax credit ? This program would give homebuyers in the state a tax credit worth up to $15,...

This originally appeared as a guest column on Pollster.com . The motto of Nate Silver’s website, www.fiverthirtyeight.com , is “Politics Don...

This column originally appeared as an Op-Ed in the Gannett New Jersey newspapers on June 13, including the Asbury Park Press, Courier News, ...

So what does the outcome of New Jersey’s Congressional primaries mean? The Tea Party movement certainly made a statement, but there is a lo...