SPECIAL PRIMARY ELECTION EDITION: PART TWO

Winners

Losers

WEEKEND AT BERNIES

The age issue was a non-starter; voters -- at least Democrats -- didn't care that Frank Lautenberg would be nearly 91 after another term.

MANIFESTOS

If you want to pursue a career in politics, don't write one.

LINES

Organization lines and party endorsements matter.

EDITORIALS

Do they really influence voters? Apparently not.

Millicent Fenwick

The late Congresswoman is back in style, sort of like the GAP ads that used Audrey Hepburn footage

debates

Do they really influence voters? Apparently not.

New York City

Message to Cliffside Park: Darling, I love you, but give me Park Avenue.

Frank Gannett

Does the endorsement of a newspaper publisher dead since 1959 matter?

COMMITTEE ON VACANCIES

Filing dates don't matter.

AFL-CIO

Frank Lautenberg isn't happy they backed off their endorsement, and unless Rick Merkt is right, he could be the Senator until 2014.

Iraq

Democratic primary voters care about when a candidate started to oppose the war.

Republican U.S. Senate candidates had no money for network TV in the primary.

Charles Sandman

The late Congressman's record remains intact: the only man to ever oust an incumbent statewide officeholder in a New Jersey primary (see editors note).

Ron Paul

The former presidential candidate's choice for U.S. Senate wins just 15% of the vote.

HAVING YOUR CAKE AND EATING IT TOO

Ray Lesniak endorsed Rob Andrews, but allowed the Charlotte DeFilippo to keep Lautenberg on the Union County line.

THE CALLAWAY ORGANIZATION

Even with absentee ballots, the shamed Atlantic City political family couldn't keep Mayor Scott Evans in office.

Justin Murphy

The former Deputy Mayor of Tabernacle ran almost as well as Jack Kelly in the GOP congressional primary.

John Crowley

The would-be U.S. Senate candidate may have missed a great opportunity.