Jersey New Still Blue but Red Grew

Good Thursday morn, Stroock's Books reader(s). 

More blessed rain and just a bit of snow. 

We attended a lovely winter chorus at Eisenhower Intermediate School yesterday evening. That Youngest Daughter was in the chorus colors our opinion of the event not at all. The little moppets sung eight or nine songs from various religions. They always make sure to get in a Chanukah song. You have to keep the Jews happy, especially now with all those drones roaming the sky over Bridgewater. People are freaking out about the drones on the local Facebook page. 

Save New Jersey reports or reported given the date: '[The Mighty] Scott Pressler, the famously tall and long-haired Republican activist credited with helping Pennsylvania Republicans dramatically increase their voter registration gap in 2024, is now pledging to ply his talents for the Garden State in 2025.' Click here for a map of how New Jersey voted in by county. We're in Somerset County, the blue one north central (which Kamala easily won). As we've said for a while, New Jersey may be blue, but we ain't California crazy blue.* 

We dunno, man. New Jersey is in the New York and Philly metro areas with its own urban enclave, Newark, not to mention Camden right across the Delaware from Philly, Trenton, and Cherry Hill. That map shows large swaths of red. But a lot of those red counties were pretty close, and the blue areas are dense, especially Essex County. This blog suspects 46 percent is the GOP's presidential ceiling. 

And now Hama in northeast Syria falls to the Islamists. In the short term this disruption of Hamas rat-lines into Lebanon is good for Israel. In the long term it's bad. The Iraqi army is going into Syria? What the actual ef? We've been consulting our sources on Syria. Even so, we're having a hard time keeping track of things. This blog remains mildly pro-Assad. 

Violent Blue Yonder, in which this author has a story, is doing well, but has gotten hit by a few bad ratings. If those of you who've bought and read a copy could head on over to Amazon and give the anthology an (honest) 4 or 5 star rating, we and James Young would be grateful. This is always nice to see. 

*Dang, Trump won Passaic County. Betcha we know who flipped it for him!