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The Wilder Effect - Why Bobby Jindal lost in Louisiana, despite being ahead in the polls.
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| 11/17/03
| FredBarnes
Posted on 11/18/2003 8:40:56 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: biblewonk
"Boy, da way Glenn Miller played..."
This is why the rumored Condolezza Rice VP candidacy would be a net loss, especially in the Old South (nevermind the fact that she's also a woman).
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posted on
11/18/2003 8:45:49 AM PST
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary. You have the right to be wrong.)
To: newgeezer
I certainly wouldn't want Condi a step away from the Presidency.
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posted on
11/18/2003 8:50:55 AM PST
by
Huck
Comment #4 Removed by Moderator
To: Huck
I certainly wouldn't want Condi a step away from the Presidency. Why not?
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posted on
11/18/2003 9:01:12 AM PST
by
CatoRenasci
(Ceterum Censeo [Gallia][Germania][Arabia] Esse Delendam --- Select One or More as needed)
To: All
I live in La. and have voted Republican all my life (since 1980) but this was the first election in which I did not vote. Neither Blanco nor Jindal interested me enough. Jindal had too much the resume of a born overachieving politico (like Clinton). Blanco is a bureaucrat too but she seems to be scandal-free (a huge plus) and they were both pretty conservative when you boiled it all down so I did'nt care which of them were elected as I don't think either of them would have hurt our state.
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posted on
11/18/2003 9:06:07 AM PST
by
dg62
To: CatoRenasci
Because I wouldn't want her as President. She isn't even close to being presidential material.
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posted on
11/18/2003 9:06:48 AM PST
by
Huck
To: dg62
Not much of an excuse not to vote. But of course that's your prerogative.
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posted on
11/18/2003 9:10:07 AM PST
by
Coop
(God bless our troops!)
To: dg62
Your reasons for not voting are the same we used when we sat out the last election, but with an opposite twist. Erskine Bowles was a Clinton lapdog (enough said), and Liddy Dole was a System Republican who we figured would turn her back on us in a second (which she did). We figured we'd lose either way (which we have).
Unless Hillary enters the next race, we're sitting out the next one, too. W has been a disaster for North Carolina (except in the minds of bots), and any Democrat will only continue the same policies, just faster and harder (the latest expansion of Medicaire, which WE are going to have to pay for, comes immediately to mind).
And for the record, the Mrs. and I supported Alan Keyes.
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posted on
11/18/2003 9:18:33 AM PST
by
warchild9
To: All
If you don't vote, you lose your "b*tching rights" .
Go ahead. Don't vote. Just don't whine to me if you hate how things turn out.
Besides, even if you can't find someone to vote FOR, there is ALWAYS someone you can vote AGAINST!
Tia
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posted on
11/18/2003 9:30:16 AM PST
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
The sooner he moves to a state willing to elect him, the better for the country. After Blanco for 8 years, LA will elect Mitch Landrieu for 8 years. The state will continue to be a Democrat-conrolled trash pile like Arkansas-- and I'm an Arkansan.
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posted on
11/18/2003 9:30:16 AM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
("We happy because when we switch on the TV you never see Saddam Hussein. That's a big happy.")
To: Libertybelle321
I think Jindal knew he couldn't get those xenophobic and racist voters who fear a golden boy candidate so much smarter than they are. So, he tried to pick up minority voters to compensate.
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posted on
11/18/2003 9:32:29 AM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
("We happy because when we switch on the TV you never see Saddam Hussein. That's a big happy.")
To: Huck; biblewonk
I certainly wouldn't want Condi a step away from the Presidency. Same here. Unfortunately, some racists (some of them race baiters) automatically assume or hope it's due to her race.
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posted on
11/18/2003 9:51:20 AM PST
by
newgeezer
(Keyes '96, '00)
To: dg62
Give me a break. Conservatives are constantly being tarred as "morons" by the lib media. We finally get a true blue conservative who is unassailably brilliant. He's poised to be a national star and a symbol of our color-blind philosophy--and you can't be bothered to cast a vote for him versus a dopey, medi-scaring, machine Democrat. Does he look to much like one a them 7-11 ownin' Hindoos? Now that really is stupid. Reminds me of blacks who think that getting good grades is "acting white." Being smart doesn't automatically make you a Clintoon.
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posted on
11/18/2003 10:04:41 AM PST
by
Callahan
To: tiamat
I was'nt b!tching. I just responded about why I felt apathetic about this election. I have always voted since I was 18, so you can bet my apathy was significant enough to give my choice much thought. The older I get, the more I know what I am looking for in a candidate. I did'nt see that choice in this election.
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posted on
11/18/2003 10:51:22 AM PST
by
dg62
To: GraniteStateConservative
The outgoing La. Gov. Foster is a Republican. He has been a big let down to many people. The state is probably slightly to somewhat worse off than it was 8 years ago when he took office (not that it's all his fault). I have voted many times for Republicans just because they were Republican only to be let down.
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posted on
11/18/2003 10:54:10 AM PST
by
dg62
To: dg62
I didn't say you were b*tching.
I said people who do not vote give up their right to complain later.
FReegards,
Tia
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posted on
11/18/2003 10:54:52 AM PST
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: GraniteStateConservative
Might as well rename the Bayou state, Landrieuana.
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posted on
11/18/2003 11:00:27 AM PST
by
Kuksool
To: warchild9
I, too, was a Keyes supporter. I have decided he does NOT have the temperment to be a Congressman let alone a President....and I agree with abot 99% of what he says. He is ALWAYS angry and a very hot temper that i USED to see as passion. He should be a Deacon.
To: Callahan
Nothing wrong with being smart, or a rising star. I just don't like the that combination in a politician, especially a young one.
The great thing about your peers running in elections is that you can judge them on your experience with your own peers. I never did like the politico type...the kind that runs for everything, lives and breathes civic activity but has never had a real job(non political), does'nt have a real life, you know the type. Jindal fits that category to the tee. In my experience with this type, it's all hype to promote the political career, not the job to be done.
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posted on
11/18/2003 11:11:24 AM PST
by
dg62
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