{"id":199,"date":"2018-11-05T02:06:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T02:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/?p=199"},"modified":"2020-11-02T20:33:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T20:33:31","slug":"new-jersey-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/2018\/11\/05\/new-jersey-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New Jersey\u2019s Second Congressional District encompasses the counties of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Salem, Cumberland, Cape May, and Atlantic as well as portions of Gloucester, Camden, Burlington and Ocean<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In early November 2017, Frank LoBiondo (R), the incumbent representative of NJ-2, announced that he would not be campaigning for re-election in 2018. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a political journalism publication based in Arlington, writes that LoBiondo\u2019s decision \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">opens a battleground district in southern New Jersey that LoBiondo has held easily since 1994.&#8221; State Senator Jeff Van Drew (D) and attorney Seth Grossman (R) are running in the general election along with John Ordille (L) and independent candidates Anthony Parisi Sanchez, William Benfer, and Steven Fenichel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seth Grossman, the Republican candidate, is campaigning in support of President Donald Trump, stating that his mission if elected will be to \u201cforcefully defend and protect President Trump and his agenda every way I can.&#8221; He is in support of repealing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and aims to further enforce immigration laws. Jeff Van Drew, who is running on the Democratic ticket, is building his platform on morality. He strives to meet the Democratic and Republican parties in the middle, stating when declaring his candidacy \u201cExpect to hear a lot from me during this campaign about finding common ground&#8230;The future of our democracy depends on finding ways around our differences, so we can work together on all that we have in common.\u201d Issues of importance to Van Drew include college affordability, bringing manufacturing jobs to South Jersey, defending veterans, civil rights, lowering the cost of healthcare, equal pay, protecting U.S. relations with Israel, and lowering taxes. He is also a defender of agriculture and fishing, writing that \u201cIt is imperative that we promote policy that will protect this industry and its huge contribution to our economic success.\u201d Additionally, he opposes offshore drilling, privatizing Social Security and Medicare, and raising the retirement age. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A poll conducted by Stockton University on September 12-18, 2018, showed that Van Drew has a 23 point lead (55-32). The study included a sample size of 535 and a margin of error of +\/-4.2. Additionally, FiveThirtyEight, a statistical analysis website, rates Van Drew as having a 97.6% chance of victory. The voting history of New Jersey\u2019s Second Congressional District is complex, with Trump having been elected with 50.6% of the vote to Clinton\u2019s 46% in 2016. Barack Obama, however, was elected twice by the district with 53-54% of the vote. The 2018 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cook Partisan Voter Index <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for NJ-2 is R+1. This indicates that the district&#8217;s results were 1 percent more Republican than the national average. Voting will take place on November 6 from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Online registration and same-day registration will not be available. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Jessica Hutt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey\u2019s Second Congressional District encompasses the counties of Salem, Cumberland, Cape May, and Atlantic as well as portions of Gloucester, Camden, Burlington and Ocean. In early November 2017, Frank LoBiondo (R), the incumbent representative of NJ-2, announced that he would not be campaigning for re-election in 2018. 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