Booker: ‘Over 50% of African-Americans Don’t Even Know Who I Am Right Now’

RUSH EXCERPT:

BOOKER: “Well, I don’t know. I do know that we see that over 50% of African-Americans don’t even know who I am right now. While the vice president has full name recognition I’m still introducing myself to voters and you know Barack Obama was behind, in South Carolina.”
AXELROD: “Until he won the Iowa caucuses.”
BOOKER: “Won the Iowa caucuses’s we are working really hard to run a grass roots organizing campaign reminds me a lot how we beat the machine in Newark. Went out in the field. Living room to living room, door to door, town hall from town hall in 1998. My point, got out the same amount of votes you always got but brought out an entirely new electorate and won in the ward in central New Jersey. In Iowa, gone all over the state now you’ve got to earn people’s vote. Get out there and meet people and do the kind of organizing I feel comfortable. The guy who came up through retail politics. I think we’re going to do extraordinarily well in the early primary states.”