Are Republicans still popular in Louisiana? Could the Dem candidate take it next year?

[Quixote1818]

After the way Bush has neglected NO and bungled Katrina I would be stunned if the people in that state weren't fed up with the Republican party. Will I be stunned or are people down there waking up?

Thoughts?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. One of the very real problems is that as a result of Katrina, a large number of reliable Democratic

voters have been scattered to the winds, literally.

I'm sure that at least in part the failure to rebuild the 9th Ward has been intentional for just this reason.

I thought the same thing as you but haven't heard much encouraging news from there. I wonder if some of our LA posters like Swamprat or others might comment on what they're seeing/hearing.

[More Than A Feeling]

2. LA strikes me as one of the few states getting redder,

because of the displacement of likely Dem voters from NOLA. On the bright side, Republicans are scraping the bottom of the barrel to come up with a challenger to Sen. Landrieu, and the Dems are showing that they won't concede the governor's race to Rep. Jindal. They are slamming him hard.

[pitohui]

3. what democratic candidate?

i'm asking not telling

once blanco bowed out and breaux was disqualified who's left?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. I think the OP is talking 08 Prez race.

[pitohui]

8. ho! ho kay, went right over my head! EOM

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[pingzing58]

5. All I know is that my Catholic friends in NOLA and southern LA voted with the republicans

having been democrats because of the RC position on abortion and family values. Now, if they listen to us maybe their eyes will be opened to the Repug hypocrasy. Landrieu has not been able to get the money needed to rebuild NOLA and the mississippi delta because she has no relationships and favors to call in with FEMA. Obviously they are sidelining her requests. It has to be a Democrat who is, I'm sorry to say, right of the Dem agenda on abortion: because Roman Catholics have voted on this single issue to the exclusion of helping the poor and undocumented workers who emmigrated from Houston and are rebuilding NOLA in Louisiana. Knowing my peeps in Cajun LA since 1973, I know how the ones that VOTE think and where they stand. I have hope for them.

[Jim Sagle]

6. Most of those who woke up were purposely driven out of Louisiana, and they won't be back to vote.

Many of those remaining think NO and its citizens got what they deserved.

The treasonous filth in the White House planned and executed this exericse in ethnic cleansing BECAUSE it would turn LA red.

Try, convict, and hang them for treason.

[BlooInBloo]

7. Don't EVER count on a southern state to vote for anything good....

... Make your projections assuming you're going to lose every single southern state. We can win without them without much difficulty, now that the plains states are coming around.

If they ever want to stop whining about how everyone else rips on them, and actually do something right for a change, they would be welcome. Fuck them otherwise. Our policies will aid those states, regardless of whether or not they're intelligent and/or moral enough to vote for them themselves.

[depakid]

11. That's about the long and short of it

The Dems need to STOP pandering to the South- and start standing up for traditional Democratic values.

As Dean so astutely noted, their kids need healthcare and good schools too (even if they're too stubborn, parochial or intolerant to recognize that the far right has been pissing down their legs and telling them it's raining).

[Vodid]

9. I live in the Bywater neighborhood, a coupla miles downriver...

...a coupla miles downriver from the French Quarter, and I believe we have about three...or maybe five Republicans in the neighborhood...I don't see any of 'em very often, and I think they've been stayin' indoors, so I might've lost count.

[Tesha]

10. I see no evidence that *ANY* part of the traditional South will vote for a Democrat ever again.

For all the blather we get here on DU about the South being
winnable if only we had the right candidate, if only Democrats
came out in favor of every toddler being issued a gun, if only
we'd dump those nasty GaysNLesbians, I see no evidence that
*ANY* part of the traditional South ("Dixie") will ever vote
for a Democrat again.

Some of the edges *MAY* be in play, but the heart of the South
seems to be solidly Republican and taking bold (and quite
likely unethical, immoral, and illegal) steps to stay that
way.

Tesha

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. Apperently their candidate for Governor is popular

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