Booker: U.S. Senate "clearly a job I'm interested in"

(CBS News) The New Jersey Senate seat being vacated by five-term Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., is "clearly... a job I'm interested in," Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker said today on "Face the Nation."

Booker, the headline-prone mayor made famous by his hands-on acts of gallantry, has filed federal papers - "what we had to do by law," he said - to explore a run for the seat in 2014. The rising star would be the apparent front-runner for the Democratic nomination.

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"I'll spend the coming months working on and exploring that," Booker told Bob Schieffer. "But right now we have one election in New Jersey, which is our state-wide gubernatorial and legislative elections. As a Democrat in New Jersey, that's where my focus is, next year's election for Senate will take care of itself."

Asked whether he was still harboring once-admitted ambitions to seek the New Jersey gubernatorial seat, Booker said, "no... we in New Jersey take one election at a time."

A Monmouth University poll last week showed that 38 percent of New Jersey Democratic primary voters already say their party should align behind Booker should he seek the nomination.

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Is this a SNL skit???

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Rep. Frank Pallone will be the next senator because of the clintons.
In 2008 he went to New Hampshire when Hillary was getting piloried by the media and founding out the huge betrayal from the establishment she was up against. Few people in the democratic party stayed with Her. Rep. Frank Pallone was one of them. At some point one of the clinton will cut an ad for him or show up in NJ and it will be game over. Just ask the guy who endorsed obama in 2008 and wanted to keep his seat after redistricting put him against another democrat who endorse Hillary in 2008

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Rep. Frank Pallone will be the next senator because of the clintons.
In 2008 he went to New Hampshire when Hillary was getting piloried by the media and founding out the huge betrayal from the establishment she was up against. Few people in the democratic party stayed with Her. Rep. Frank Pallone was one of them. At some point one of the clinton will cut an ad for him or show up in NJ and it will be game over. Just ask the guy who endorsed obama in 2008 and wanted to keep his seat after redistricting put him against another democrat who endorse Hillary in 2008

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This man's ego and ambitions are legendary. Sad. Hope NJ voters understand it's sincerely in their best interests not to unleash him upon the Senate.