Polls close in New Jersey

The closing of the polls, at 8:00 p.m., has come and gone with little change in activity at Kean campaign headquarters. While a large group of press fills the rear of the main room, and bartenders serve occasional drinks to the media crowd, few campaign officials are present in the room at this time. Nearby one reporter says "now the waiting game begins," as the stage at the front of the room remains, for a time, empty. Kean officials wearing yellow badges emblazoned with "War Room" continue to mill about. One official was just interviewed about the allegations of voting fraud, contained in a post below, and said that the reports were "bad stuff."

The big question is this: Will the Kean campaign have reason to party tonight?


-- Mike Shapiro