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Related: About this forumShoutout for Cory Booker!
Hooray for another great new Dem Senator for NJ. Congratulations!
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Shoutout for Cory Booker! (Original Post)
cilla4progress
Oct 2013
OP
Found that tidbit in a piece about Booker's election on Daily Kos this morning...
Rowdyboy
Oct 2013
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rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)1. k&r thanks for posting. nm
Pisces
(5,602 posts)2. Yeah!!!!!
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)3. Largest per centage of the vote for any open seat since 1930....
The voters of New Jersey have spoken loudly.
cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)4. Did not know that!
Excellent news.
I spent years growing up in NJ. Happy for the state.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)7. Found that tidbit in a piece about Booker's election on Daily Kos this morning...
http://www.dailykos.com/
"Booker's 55 percent was the most any candidate's won in an open seat race for U.S. Senate in New Jersey since the 1930 election of Dwight Morrow. It's vanishingly rare for a New Jersey candidate to crack 60 percent statewide; it hadn't been done since 1984, the first re-election of Bill Bradley."
Definitely good news for the state.
"Booker's 55 percent was the most any candidate's won in an open seat race for U.S. Senate in New Jersey since the 1930 election of Dwight Morrow. It's vanishingly rare for a New Jersey candidate to crack 60 percent statewide; it hadn't been done since 1984, the first re-election of Bill Bradley."
Definitely good news for the state.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)5. I hope he remembers to vote Democratic.
Not a real big fan.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)6. Glad you said that, not a fan either. He loves, loves, Wall Street, etc...n/t
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)8. ditto