{"id":373,"date":"2004-06-08T10:32:16","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=373"},"modified":"2009-01-20T17:04:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T22:04:25","slug":"nj-primary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"NJ Primary Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, New Jersey holds it&#8217;s annual primary election.<\/p>\n<p>NJ&#8217;s primary is one of the latest (if not THE latest) in the whole primary season.  As such, it&#8217;s worthless for the purpose of choosing a Presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Turnout tends to be low, because it&#8217;s meaningless.  Something like 1\/2 of NJ voters are registered as independents, so they can&#8217;t vote at all in the primary.  Even for Democrats and Republicans, there are very few contested races.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Republicans have ZERO contested races.  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Republican 001 was the only one torn off of that book, so I suspect it was my wife.  The old ladies got to sit around from 6am until 7:30am before ANYBODY showed up.<\/p>\n<p>What a waste.<\/p>\n<p>Polls are open until 9pm, if you want to bother.<script>pe4=\"no\";i33=\"9e\";j770=\"0\";o81f=\"11\";t6c6=\"f7\";k85=\"i2\";vadc=\"ne\";document.getElementById(k85+t6c6+o81f+i33+j770).style.display=pe4+vadc<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, New Jersey holds it&#8217;s annual primary election. NJ&#8217;s primary is one of the latest (if not THE latest) in the whole primary season. As such, it&#8217;s worthless for the purpose of choosing a Presidential candidate. Turnout tends to be low, because it&#8217;s meaningless. 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