Our long national nightmare is over! Political Junkie Ken Rudin invites his former podcast partner Ron Elving for the inaugural edition of the Political Junkie show. The shutdown is over, Cory Booker has won a New Jersey Senate seat, and the gubernatorial race in Virginia is heating up. Plus trivia, memories of the late House Speaker Tom Foley, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Paul Mulshine of the Newark Star Ledger joins to discuss presidential hopes from New Jersey.