New Jersey is a state with over eight million people but without a Tv station.  The "need" to use NYC and Philly TV makes campaigning God-awful expensive and also limits the amount of coverage local politics gets.

Although newspapers from the two major media markets get a lot of readership from NJ, they don't give it much coverage.  Looking on the web today, neither the NY Times nor the Philadelphia Inquirer had articles on the Jersey Senate race.  The state's two largest papers, the Newark Star Ledger and the Record (formerly the Bergen record) did have ample coverage but took completely different tacks.  The Star Ledger was playing gotcha about even more fake stuff from Kean ("Democrats for Kean" May Vote for Menendez).  It seems that they were tricked into coming to a Kean event mis-labeled as being a meeting about political corruption).  The Record was still hammering hard about Menendez and real estate transactions.  Perhaps notably, the Record serves more Republican areas of the state and has pushed big time to become the paper of choice in Morris County.

Maybe the most noteworthy headline was from the NY Daily News, "Foley Mackerel>"