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First, I want to thank the more than 4,000 people who were with us last night during our live election night coverage at www.HarryHurley.com

We did it, again ... We had results and pertinent information faster than anyone else. Thanks to our many sources around the state who came through with fast, and, most importantly, accurate information.

The pace was beyond furious. Thank you to Beth Epstein from "Repair & Click it" (Her Web Services Division of her great Company) ... for all of her help setting up our instant flash return coverage. Beth does a phenomenal job managing our Breaking News Page at www.HarryHurley.com.

Also, my thanks and appreciation to Art B #3 for all of his help with HarryHurley.com main page.

We had a great Primary Election season. In truth, we ran the "table," as each and every candidate we backed WON! But, it's not just about winning ... although that's always nice.

From: Chris Christie, to: Vince Polistina, John Amodeo, Mike Donahue, Frank Conrad, Frank Giordano, Frank Formica, to: Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford, Councilman George Tibbitt, Hamilton Township Committeeman in waiting, Charles Cain ... Each and everyone carried the day last night.

I am extremely proud of the way this broadcast conducted itself. We gave everyone a fair hearing ... we didn't succumb to some of the low conduct of those who went way over the line in this campaign ...

I also supported the Boscov's Loan Guarantee ... and, even that came in on Primary Election Day, off the ballot ... when the Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders approved it by a bi-partisan 8-1 margin.

With no rest for the politically weary ... we now transition to the General Election campaign.

I have to say that I was thoroughly impressed with the way that Mayor Steve Lonegan graciously accepted defeat last night. It was a text book, do and say everything right moment for him.

He looked bigger then himself ... But, you could tell, some in his faithful following would not go along with Lonegan's plea to bring the Republican Party together.

I am convinced that the Republican Party will strongly re-unite ... Yes, there will be a handful of Lonegan worshipper's that will remain nasty and refuse to accept reality, but, this number will statistically insignificant in the end.

Chris Christie won a great victory last night. He is in great position to win the General Election. But, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be spending a lot of time and energy and money on trying to stop this result from happening.

Locally, it was a great victory for Mayor Langford. No one expected the margin of victory he earned last night. And, David Tayoun finished second at the polls ... with absentee ballots, Small may take second before it's all over ... But, it was nice to see messenger absentee ballots not control the final result.

However, Councilman Tibbitt's margin of victory at the polls over Ernest Coursey is about 237 votes. We will have to wait and see how/where these paper ballots fall. Although Tibbitt, with Stephaneine Dixon and Marcus Wilson had a highly credible and ethical absentee ballot campaign.

But, it does show how important the "line" was in Atlantic City. Without the line ... Tibbitt probably goes down last night in defeat ... which would have been a disgrace.

You have to give Coursey credit. He ran very strong off the line. truth be told ... there was a lot of ticket splitting ... But, Langford had coat tails last night ... no question about it. He's done this before. Mo Delgado and Gilliam will be newcomers to Atlantic City Council and the whole Regular Democratic ticket prevailed yesterday.

Proving once and for all, how much it mean to Langford, when he won the endorsement of the Atlantic City Democratic Committee.

It also proved, for those who doubted how important it was when Tibbitt boldly fled his former running mate, won the Regular Democratic endorsement from Chairman Pat D'Arcy.

Huge day for political junkies. Now, a very crowded field will batlle for Mayor in the General Election Campaign.

Langford, Joe Polillo, Jesse Kurtz, Mandi Love and Dennis Mason officially filed his petitions yesterday to run as an Independent for Mayor.

Finally, you can't give Charles Cain enough credit for doing what he did yesterday. It's so hard to win off the line. Republican Chairman John Sacchinelli's surprise endorsement of Cain on "Hurley in the Morning" on the day before yesterday's election ... was the final push to put Cain over the top ... not to take credit away from the great campaign that he ran.