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Rare newark politician who was as popular if not more popular outside newark than he was inside newark. lonegan is clearly trying to change that. >> meanwhile, booker got a huge cash infusion from bloomberg, but it's an interesting mixed bag of people showing up for lonegan when we have sarah palin stumping for him, rand paul has campaigned for him and chris christie who's numbers are in the 60s. he's a likeable guy. what happens to a sarah palin in new jersey? >> yeah, if you look at sarah palin's individual numbers in new jersey, they're terrible. that's somebody you bring in if you're in a ...

Where there are three, four dozen african-americans in the house. and often they represent districts that are protected by the voting rights act, majority/minority districts and there's is an informal ceiling imposed by state democratic parties they view condition whose come from the districts not as electable statewide, there's a stigma attached to nap when you look at cory booker's story, jamelle, i'm curious what you make of it. comes from a majority black city, newark but the most popular democrat in new jersey, national rock star. what do you take from the booker story as a lesson nationa...

Be so small, dominated by the political leaders of the state. and what booker has going for him is that he has the kingpin in essex county, county executive and democratic leader, that's going to help him. but he's not popular with a lot of the democratic leaders of the state. he's not a beloved figure at all. the public knows him and likes him -- >> explain that. why is that? i tried to explain to people, nationally, people look at new jersey democratic politics and say corey booker, you know, great poll numbers, but why is it that the democratic establishment in new jersey doesn't have that ...

We invest more in the u.s. than anywhere else in the world. over fifty-five billion dollars here in the last five years - making bp america's largest energy investor. our commitment has never been stronger. so corey booker is going to be announcing his senate candidacy in newark, then travel to south jersey and do another announcement there. so, we talked about the republican side. steve lonegan, conservative republican, looks like he's the republican candidate. doesn't have much of a chance in the general election. corey booker will walk into this democratic senate primary, there is a prima...

Newark is not corey booker's place. he's not -- it doesn't seem to be in control in administrative matters, budget, police, so on but he's had political problems in newark. how do new jerseyans look at that? probably not a lot of people are aware of that. and corey booker, in a way, is a kind of chris christie person in wanting to go out and talk to people and be well known. booker has been all over the state doing graduation speeches and so on. how does that count? in this rather strange election, on august 13th? >> we talk about nationally chris christie and republicans, chris christie have ...