However, the district has favored Republican presidential candidates recently.

He has given more than $5 million to their political action committees, county organizations and favored candidates in recent years.

It is true that absentee voters in the past tended to favor Republican candidates, he said.

They have also argued that it would favor wealthy candidates who financed their own campaigns.

Other quirks of the new system might also favor less mainstream candidates.

But precedent in New Jersey favors candidates who have run and lost.

In any event, it could all happen well before the end of the year, favoring candidates with ready money and familiar names.

In their campaign contributions, drug companies have favored Republican candidates.

Voting again favors earlier candidates from the 1900s and 1910s, but none is able to gain 75% of the vote.

Sixteen percent favored other candidates or said they were uncertain.