Progressive activists around New Jersey were watching this week a local non-partisan election over a small town mayor. They were hoping that the slate of Kate Delany, Bill Johnson and Jen Rossi in Collingswood would create a crack in the wall of the party machine run by George Norcross. 

It didn't work out that way.

Listen to WNYC's Nancy Solomon break down what happened in Collingswood and what it means for political reform in New Jersey.