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Sunday, May 19, 2002

# Posted 3:41 PM by Dan  

CORY BOOKER WILL BE BACK. Sure, Mayor James defeated him last week by about 7 points. But as Daniel Baer notes in his CS Monitor Op-Ed, Booker has established himself as a major Democratic contender. The next question is, will he wait around in Newark to run again in four years, or use the momentum provided by this campaign for a Congressional run? He's 33, which is relatively young in political terms. He has also demonstrated his commitment to Newark. But he is also ambitious. My call? He will run for office elsewhere before 2006. I wholeheartedly agree with Baer's assertion that "Booker provides a sort of collective vindication for younger Americans, who have been stereotyped as apathetic, apolitical, and lazy." This is not the last we have heard from Cory Booker.
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