Do Presidents love New Jersey or New York?

by: Hopeful

Thu Feb 26, 2009 at 01:00:00 PM EST

Naturally I immediately compared New Jersey to New York, to see who gets more Presidential love:

We lose and it isn't even close: 144-11. Woodrow Wilson (1919) was the last President to mention us, but every President after Kennedy went for New York.  Jersey was also acknowledged by Washington, Lincoln, Arthur, Cleveland, McKinley,and Taft too. But of course, New York has New York City too, so maybe we'd do better against Pennsylvania:

Pennsylvania also crushed us, 40-11. But at least New Jersey must be more important than our last neighor. Delaware has never had a President or more than three electoral votes:

Ouch: 25-11. No wonder so many New Jerseyans have a chip on their shoulder.