Democrats started Election Day with a 290,000-vote advantage. Republicans never caught up
Before the polls opened on Election Day, New Jersey Democrats had already built a 290,408-vote advantage over Republicans. That’s not a projection, a poll, or a calculation based on party registration. Those were actual ballots returned by voters, and while nobody knew precisely how they voted, the numbers gave Democrats an enormous head start before the first Election Day voter walked into a polling place.
