NJ-GOV 2025: Megathread

[ProgressiveModerate]

Rlly hope Steve Fulop wins. He's a great mayor of JC and is decently responsive to very local issues for a city of it's size. He's also just charismatic and young. He also has pretty broad appeal within the Dem Party to both progressives and moderates.

Sadly though I'm not *too* optimistic about his chances because of the Jersey political machine and also the fact Jersey City is somewhat culturally isolated from the rest of the state and seen as just a bedroom for NYC.

[ProgressiveModerate]

I personally like Fulop, however, I struggle to see Fulop winning the primary. He's locally popular in Jersey City, but Jersey City is very different from the rest of NJ, and infact I think a lot of NJ frowns in Jersey City because of it increasingly becoming a bedroom community for NYC which ultimately drives up prices.

[ProgressiveModerate]

I personally like Fulop, however, I struggle to see Fulop winning the primary. He's locally popular in Jersey City, but Jersey City is very different from the rest of NJ, and infact I think a lot of NJ frowns in Jersey City because of it increasingly becoming a bedroom community for NYC which ultimately drives up prices.

There also might be an assumption that "big city" = crime and poverty. I know how the upper-class New Jersey suburbanite thinks, despite Fulop doing a lot to reinvigorate Jersey City.

In my case, I think I'll end up voting either for him or Sherrill if she runs. We'll see.

Yeah that too, but in NJ I feel like Newark is most notorious for that so maybe that penalty won't be as bad for Fulop.