Our new boyfriend, Cory Booker, wins NJ Senate primary.

[hinoema]

Cory A. Booker, the mayor of Newark, who rose to prominence with his efforts to remake a notoriously troubled city and then used that perch to build a national reputation as a charismatic and media-savvy star in the Democratic Party, easily won the Democratic nomination for United States Senate on Tuesday night

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[lickety_split]

I'll be devastated if he's ever revealed to be a scumbag.

<3 him.

[hinoema]

I doubt he would be (though I'm sure some will try). I want him to take over for Al Franken and Bernie Sanders as the voice of truth. Someone needs to remind everyone how far right the whole apparatus has drifted.

[quadruplify]

I want him to take over for Al Franken and Bernie Sanders as the voice of truth.

What's wrong with Franken and Sanders? (Unless I'm misinterpreting your comment...)

[hinoema]

Nothing; they're just getting up there, and we need a new generation of loudmouth truth tellers. (Especially after Wiener turned out to be such a bust.)

[fauxparadiso]

Listening to his speech right now and swooning at his commitment to stand with women and LGBT rights. this is obama 2002 speech levels of iconic right here.

[omimouse]

. . . I'll start getting the signs ready for his run for President in 2016, who's getting the buttons?

[lickety_split]

I'll get the buttons. Who's getting the shirts?

[wrestlingdog]

I could have sworn there was a "this looks like a job for cory booker" tag, but apparently not.

And I think you mean "Christie," not Giulianni?

Can I talk about how pissed I am that the Senate election's going to be a separate election on a Wednesday three weeks before the general, where Chris Christie's gonna be on the ballot?

*home state fuck yeah*

[hinoema]

Oops, yeah, Christie. *goes to fix that*

Of course! Christie doesn't want the competition.

[sio]

I could have sworn there was a "this looks like a job for cory booker" tag, but apparently not.

it's been suggested and seconded several times. no response from the mods yet. (pleeeease, mods?? i think it's time now XD)

[the_physicist]

If he does he will become the country’s only elected black senator

That sentence just made me do some googleing. wow.

[hinoema]

I had a double take at that, too. Like, really?

[redstar826]

As he campaigned, he portrayed what his opponents saw as a weakness - that he was insufficiently liberal on issues important to Democrats like gun control and unions - as a strength.

So, what are his actual policy positions that make this dude so awesome?

Mr. Booker shored up his early lead in the polls by spending at least $5 million to date, compared to the combined $4 million spent by his two chief rivals, Mr. Pallone and Mr. Holt

who were the largest donors to his campaign?

[telemann]

So, what are his actual policy positions that make this dude so awesome?

He's pretty thin on those things. Alex Wagner's show had a great feature this week about that.

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/now/52754774