Jindal Wins Second Term as Governor of Louisiana

[alp227]

Source: AP

Gov. Bobby Jindal easily coasted to a second term on Saturday, winning in a landslide after failing to attract any well-known or deep-pocketed opposition.

Mr. Jindal, 40, a Republican, overwhelmed nine competitors in the vote, an open primary; a candidate wins the race outright if he or she receives more than 50 percent of the vote.

“I will use every day, every hour of these next four years to make Louisiana the very best that we can be,” Mr. Jindal told a packed hotel ballroom of supporters in Baton Rouge. “I don’t believe in resting on our past accomplishments. I don’t believe in taking time off.”

Having piled up $15 million in campaign cash from around the country, he attracted no Democratic challengers with statewide name recognition or fund-raising heft. He has had consistently high approval ratings since taking office in 2008.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/us/jindal-wins-second-term-as-governor-of-louisiana.html

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In the election, there were four Democrats challenging Jindal. Are there no primaries in Louisiana?

[tblue]

1. Yeah, cuz all those Democrats were dispersed with Hurricane Katrina.

Sad sad sad sad sad.

[No Elephants]

13. Mostly to Texas, where their votes would be lost in a sea of red.

[Katashi_itto]

23. I live in New Orleans, Like the natives here are just blind to how bad Jindal is.

It's weird.

[NOLALady]

26. Blind?

Or they don't care. This region can be counted on to vote against their best interests.

[customerserviceguy]

2. Louisiana has a different sort of election scheme

Everybody is on one primary ballot, the top two have a runoff election if one candidate fails to get 50% or more.

[MADem]

3. It's rather French, that system! nt

[No Elephants]

16. Perhaps like its system of law.

"Louisiana is unique among the 50 U.S. states in having a legal system partially based on French and Spanish codes and ultimately Roman law, as opposed to English common law.<1> Louisiana thus follows the system of most non-Anglophone countries in the world.

<snip>

Despite popular belief (and Stanley Kowalski's brief explanation in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire) it's incorrect to say that the Louisiana Civil Code is, or stems from, the Napoleonic Code; rather, the two law codes stem from common sources. Although the developing Napoleonic Code strongly influenced Louisiana law, it was not enacted until 1804, one year after the Louisiana Purchase. The main source of Louisiana jurisprudence may in fact be Spanish.<2> Currently, the Louisiana Civil Code consists of 3,556 individual code articles.<3>"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_law

[MADem]

20. +1 nt

[Maccagirl]

4. Jindal "gets consistantly high approval ratings."

Why?

[ananda]

5. Beats me ..

People in La must be really crazy stupid.

[juajen]

17. No, there are plenty of us with good progressive minds.

Our state is filled with republicans in government, however, and central tallying of votes in Parish Clerk of Court offices. Most or all of these (?) are filled with republicans. Democrats must benefit in some way by not doing anything about the stealing of votes, or many republican states in the south and midwest would, at the least, turn purple. Andy Stephenson would have been apoplectic by now. Miss you, Andy!

[NOLALady]

27. I really do not believe that Piyush

won the first election. I still believe that election was stolen.

[beac]

6. Louisiana is populated with 'Brady Bunch' fans who abhor volcano monitoring?

:shrug:

In know. That makes no sense, but neither does a high approval rating for lil' Bobby.

At least his not-ready-for-primetime epic fail will keep him off the national stage for a good while longer.

[Katashi_itto]

24. I know. Jindal would do away with NOAA if he could.

[BlueStater]

8. This is the same state that reelected a guy who likes to wear a diaper as its senator.

I'm not even going to try to figure them out.

[No Elephants]

14. He can exorcise demons! He's an Ex Man!

[SoapBox]

7. wow...guess Stupid is, as Stupid does!

...guess you get what you deserve LA.

Jindal...Vitter...nice.

Not.

[PavePusher]

9. Geographical bigotry?

Do you really think that's a winning strategy?

[tcaudilllg]

12. Who cares about winning?

This making nice and PC crap is not working. Obama's low approval rating is proof of that.

[No Elephants]

18. I don't think Obama's approval ratings prove being nice doesn't work.

They prove owning the media works.

And that is just one thing.

There are many other things I think Obama's ratings reflect, but I don't know if there is a point in trying to describe them right now.

But, I think Reagan's ratings were worse at this point in his Presidency and his re-election numbers were staggering, especially for modern times, so there's still a lot of hope for Obama's re-election. And Reagan was never perceived as someone who failed to be "nice." In fact, his friendship with the Democratic Speaker of the House is legendary.

[No Elephants]

19. Not sure that post reflects geographical bigotry.

There's an old and widespread saying that voters get what they deserve.

The poster simply made that more specific, saying that a state that not only elected, but easily re-elected, folks like Jindal and Vitter gets what it deserves.

Basing a comment on whom the people of a state re-elect does not seem like bigotry to me. How you vote is a behavior you can easily change at will.

[alp227]

32. and oil industry shill DINO Mary Landrieu as well nt

[pezDispenser]

10. $15 million in campaign cash from around the country

??? Why should anyone outside the state of Louisiana have a say in who becomes the governor of Louisiana?

[No Elephants]

21. Koch money decided that the Brown turn should be my Senator.

Even if you made laws banning donations from other states, you could never enforce them.

If nothing else, the Kochs could have given that money to the Republican National Committee with a wink and the RNC would have funneled it to Brown.

[Imajika]

11. The Democratic party in Louisiana is now a joke...

It's been nearly totally wiped out. The other statewide races were more competitive, but it's all Republicans running against each other. Virtually no Democrats at all, doesn't even look like the party fields candidates. Katrina badly damaged Bush, but it appears to sped up the destruction of the Democrats in Louisiana as well.

[JCMach1]

15. Sounds like the Florida Democratic Party

[No Elephants]

22. Katrina did not destroy the Democractic Party in Louisiana. The response of Bush

and other Republicans to Katrina did that.

If you move Democrats out of the NOLA area and re settle them in Texas and other states.....

And some charities were reluctant to re-build homes in the area because no one was talking about strengthening the levees or making them less resistant to overtopping.

The only goal stated was maybe getting them repaired to their pre-Katrina levels, which were, obviously, inadequate.

[onehandle]

25. Is he still going to be on 30 Rock?

When does the season start anyway?

[dudkos]

28. I'm not great with dates

But I don't think it's November yet. :shrug:

[former9thward]

33. They don't have their election in November.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

29. LOL@ lousiana. nt

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[tabasco]

31. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Diaper-Boi and E.T.

Louisiana is the armpit of America.

[KamaAina]

34. The really scary thing is...

...Booby isn't even in the Bottom Ten list of repuke governors. He's a regular old pussycat compared to pRick Scott, Rev. Goodhair, Walker, Snyder, Christie, Maine's LePage and many others. :eyes: