Locks are made to be broken.
NEW JERSEY has been part of both recent Electoral College "locks," voting Republican six consecutive times from 1968 to 1988 and then Democratic five consecutive times from 1988 to 2008. But the Democrats have a history of winning big here, then fading. It happened most dramatically in the 1960s: Johnson got 65.6% and a record margin of 903,828 votes in 1964, and four years later the Democratic share plunged to 44.0%, creating a hole it took the party more than 20 years to crawl out of.
See all of the charts so far by clicking the category "vote margins by state" below (or going to Pinterest) and an explanation of the project here.
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