That was almost as successful as this week’s “Booker doesn’t really live in Newark!” scandal. Spoiler alert: he does, and there are years and years of public data, Tweets, and articles to prove it.
:eek: A man who lives in Newark and admits it publicly is too shameless even for the United States Senate!
Maybe, but it kinda went without saying since he was the mayor of Newark…
Booker will be the third sitting black Senator, but he’s the first African-American to be elected to the Senate since Barack Obama. He’ll also have to run for re-election next year because he’s completing Lautenberg’s term.
Here, we’ll all just let you Google that one yourself 
Grats to Senator Booker!
Last time I tried that I found goatse!
That ain’t no excuse! :mad:
To actually answer your question:
Motorboating is when you put your head between a woman’s breasts (they need to be somewhat large for this to work) and shake your head back and forth while making a buzzing sound. Apparently this sounds like a motorboat going through the water. I think it’s just an excuse to put your face in some boobs
It looks like the final margin was 55%-44%. I’m not sure why the race turned out to be closer than people originally expected, but I am wondering if Booker knew he was going to win and spent the bare minimum on campaigning because he’s going to have to raise money and run again in a year. I read that he spent very little on TV advertising even in a short campaign.
I take it back about three African-Americans in the Senate. There are still two because Mo Cowan isn’t there anymore. He was there from February to July, but Ed Markey replaced him after winning the special election for Kerry’s old seat. However there have been three different African-Americans in the Senate this year, and when Cowan took office, it was the first time there had been two African-American senators at the same time. Scott will also be running in a special election next year and then he’ll have to run again in 2016 if he wants a full term.
I am a registered NJ Dem who voted yesterday. Obviously I voted from Booker as Lonegan is nuts. He might have had a chance in South Carolina but he was toast here. People were not pleased at Christie’s messing with the election date. I only knew about it from upteen phone calls and a reminder from my husband. I remain amazed that Christie is doing so well in the polls. Property taxes are up all over this state and Christie has done little to stem the tide. He’s also a crude jackass who manages to embody all the ugly stereotypes that people have about residents of this state. Yet many of my neighbors apparently find him wonderful. The general perception is that he’s done the best he can with this state and that the alternatives are far worse.
Down in Trenton, there is a bar,
Where the bums come from near and far.
They come by truck, they come by car,
The lousy bums of New Jersey.
Wow, wow, wow, is Lonegan a tool
We in NJ dodged a very slow, very obvious, bullet on this one.
I cannot believe that the race was only won by 10 points. On the one hand, you have a superhero who saves people or their dogs or something from fires, calls people personally, interacts with individuals on twitter and elsewhere, and has tons of name recognition.
On the other hand, there’s a tea party patriot, which may work well in Texas or Oklahoma, but I thought had no real foothold in the Northeast, with little or no name recognition.
At the end of the day, it was 55% to 45% or something. WTF?
Personally, I was tempted to vote for Ed the Barber.
It was a special election held on a Wednesday in October, which was a recipe for low turnout. And I still think Booker knew he had this race won and didn’t put the pedal to the metal.