Posted on 08/05/2013 8:11:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Three New Jersey Democrats running in a special U.S. Senate election got their first crack Monday night at the front runner, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, in the first debate among all four candidates in the abbreviated campaign.
At times, they tried to gang up on Booker to show he’s less liberal than them on issues such as using public money to send children to private schools or revising health insurance laws even further.
But largely, the four candidates found themselves in agreement and their differences were relatively nuanced.
The four are running in a hastily scheduled Aug. 13 primary to face a Republican in an Oct. 16 general election in a state that hasn’t elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 40 years. The winner will serve the last 15 months of the term of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died in June at age 89. …
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Any chance for a Republican in NJ? Is there enough backlash against Obamacare that a candidate can tap into that anger and take a seat away? Or is that just wishful thinking?
No Republican can win unless they are a socialist
The people in New Jersey must be drinking some strooong water, either that or they are irredeemably and patently stupid.
“Any chance for a Republican in NJ?”
No. This is Cory Booker’s Senate seat.
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