{"id":203,"date":"2018-11-05T02:08:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T02:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/?p=203"},"modified":"2020-11-02T20:33:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T20:33:26","slug":"new-jersey-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/2018\/11\/05\/new-jersey-fourth\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Fourth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NJ 4TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-MARTHA LEWAND FORM V<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Josh Welle (D) is challenging incumbent Chris Smith (R)to represent New Jersey\u2019s 4th congressional district. The district consists of two towns in Mercer County, thirty-four in Monmouth County, and seven in Ocean County. The population of the district is roughly 736,007 (2010 Census Bureau), consists of 85.3% White, 7.8% Black, 2.3% Asian, and 7.5% Hispanic, with a median household income of $71,084. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 4th district has traditionally voted conservative, as Smith has been the region\u2019s congressman since 1980 and has voted Republican in every presidential election since 2004; President Trump received sizeable support from this district, having won with the widest margin of 56-41% in the past four presidential elections. According to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ballotpedia.org<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cThe 2018 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cook Partisan Voter Index<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for this district is R+8, meaning that in the previous two presidential elections, this district&#8217;s results were 8 percentage points more Republican than the national average\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith has a notable history of landslide victories, often winning over 60% of the district vote. This time around, however, the race will be far more competitive. Welle \u201chas broken fundraising records in that district, raising more than $1.3 million for his campaign to date\u201d (NJ Patch). Welle attended the U.S. Naval Academy and served in the Navy, conducting a tour in Afghanistan. He is pro-choice and often critical of the Trump Administration\u2019s immigration policies and claims that \u201cin light of the 2016 election, I am called to serve again, this time out of uniform\u201d (welleforcongress.com). Smith, on the other hand, tends to be classified as a moderate Republican; he is pro-life and \u201chas also expressed discomfort at gay marriage and adoption of children by gay couples\u201d (NJ Patch). \\<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">References:<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2010 Census Bureau<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ballotpedia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NJ Patch<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NJ 4TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT-MARTHA LEWAND FORM V &nbsp; Josh Welle (D) is challenging incumbent Chris Smith (R)to represent New Jersey\u2019s 4th congressional district. The district consists of two towns in Mercer County, thirty-four in Monmouth County, and seven in Ocean County. The population of the district is roughly 736,007 (2010 Census Bureau), consists of 85.3% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-students-pingry-org-vitalsigns","tag-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}