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Cory Booker: Eighty-five percent of those polled predict disaster. That sounds like my first poll when I was entering politics.

On the recordMay 3, 2015
Eighty-five percent of those polled predict disaster. That sounds like my first poll when I was entering politics.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Booker reflects on a pessimistic poll result humorously related to his early political career.

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