Thursday, October 17, 2013

Cory Booker elected as U.S. Senator from New Jersey

Incoming U.S. Senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker. PHOTO/File

(Reuters) - Democrat Cory Booker, the charismatic mayor of Newark, was the unofficial winner of a New Jersey special election on Wednesday, handily defeating a conservative Republican to fill the state's vacant U.S. Senate seat.

Booker, who had been heavily favored in polls, defeated conservative Republican Steve Lonegan, a former small-town mayor, according to tallies published online by The New York Times, Politico and

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