Posted on 10/16/2013 6:51:47 PM PDT by servo1969
The Associated Press has declared Newark Mayor Cory Booker the winner in Wednesday's special U.S. Senate election.
Booker defeated former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, a Tea Party Republican, to serve out the remainder of the late Frank Lautenberg’s term.
Although the race was close early on, Democrats were quick to declare Booker the winner. Only 40 minutes after polls closed at 8 p.m., the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was declaring victory. A short time later, state Sen. Barbara Buono, who is running against Governor Christie in the Nov. 5 election, offered her congratulations to Booker.
Forget it, it's Jersey, in those parts being a creep is considered a plus.
Good luck. I’ll just work on reforming China. It’s real sad when it’s easier to convince die-hard CCP officials that lower taxes and less government spending is good for the economy than explaining that to Democrats in the USA.
Don’t ask, it usually comes in 3’s.
Yep. It is going to take the entire system collapsing before anyone is willing to change.
Even then, odds are even money or better that what they will want will be more government and not less.
I will keep fighting as long and hard as I can, but I hold no illusions that we are anywhere close to a majority any more.
But it’s also a special election which doesn’t normally favor the idiots.
Funny. Booker doesn’t even live in NJ.
Yeah, New Jersey is almost as sucktastic as Illinois....
We have to live in hope that the chance still exists and that Republicans will improve their ground game. In this state, Republicans are a club (as another FReeper commented) whose members will vote only if they can be bothered to do so. We projectile vomit RINO’s on a regular basis.
NJ is a cesspool politically. No one should be surprised here at all. It would have taken a miracle to elect a good candidate like Lonegan. One always holds out hope, a la, the Scott Brown election in MA, but that is the exception in these failing states. The voters of these northeastern union-filled states are lost in any national election. We won’t win their electoral votes and won’t win Senate seats, barring an unusual election cycle.
I live in Hudson County in NJ and I talk to a lot of people, and they don’t realize that they are conservative until you get to a point in the conversation where a light goes off over their head. There are a lot of people here who live their lives as conservatives but have been brought up not to vote that way. Some of them are starting to come around. Race is playing a factor too, but maybe I should leave that for another discussion.
Hi, there, 148. Your gas lamps still working, or converted to electric? We had them in East Orange, where I was born. The bigger kids were able to climb those rungs that the lamplighters used to use but we were too little. The first rung was really high off the ground. Regards to you and Mr. 148.
My mom loved to tell me that. But at least we have a clue: Boehner, Booker ... so what’s the next tragic B.
I think Lonegan's showing tonight disproves that theory, they're not all bad.
And Obamacare will be squeezing the life out of Americans by then, if the conservative hits Booker early on as a vote for Obamacare it will make a difference.
Looks like a 12 point differential. That’s an improvement for the GOP in Nj.
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The last six polls in Oct. had it between 10 - 14 % Booker except for one at 22%.
But he still lost.
NJ GOPe is also a cesspool
if you’ve disowned America, why do you keep using “tex” in your handle?....if you don’t believe in it, don’t use it....
I often think of how it was when Carter was President and the People rose up and chose a better way under Reagan.
The difference I think, is that people actually suffered with Carter’s malaise. Today things suck, but nobody suffers because of it. Well, at least not until Obamacare is in full swing and becomes irreversible.
Add to the fact that Obama is consistently treated as being above it all with the option of falling back on the “it’s all Bush’s fault” excuse when things don’t work out for him.
My Faith in the American Voter is lower than an Ant’s belly at the moment.
vicious circle..
Many Northeastern Democrats are generational Democrats that need to wake up. Look at Staten Island; it split the last POTUS vote.
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