Posted on 01/21/2006 7:59:46 AM PST by LdSentinal
If Blanco is relected, it sends a resounding message to those wanting to invest in a "new" Louisiana that nothing has changed, it's business as usual. The same can be said for New Orleans now that Nagin has stepped in it bigtime with his "chocolate" comments.
The business community and investors are waiting for an indication to see what the political fortunes hold for New Orleans and Louisiana before they are willing to risk capital. Make no mistake, no one wants to invest in the current climate down here. Things must change. If not now, when? This IS Lousiana's golden opportunity, if we blow this one, yes, it's over for at least a generation.
All Bush's fault.
"Having a complete moron for governor"
Unfortunately, in Louisiana it has usually been either a complete moron or a crook...or a crooked moron. I think we have a crooked moron right now.
Of course she did. Granted, she's incompetent as Governor. But if she doesn't run for reelection, what else is she gonna do? She's not competent enough to do anything else either.
The polls don't mean anything when the opposition stuffs the ballot boxes.
This is great news! Jindal is just what the doctor ordered for Louisiana. Too bad the electorate was too dumb to recognize Jindal's superiority to Blanco the last time.
excerpt from above link:
Among the results, Grimm found that if the election for governor were held today, 53 percent of voters would pick Bobby Jindal, now a U.S. congressman, compared with only 31 percent for Blanco.
"Blanco should reconsider running for office, because everybody we tested can beat her," Grimm said, adding that the three other head-to-head contenders matched against Blanco were David Vitter, Richard Ieyoub and Mitch Landrieu.
Well, yeah, I guess I forgot about that...
LOL!
Look for the buses that were mysteriously unavailable to evacuate people from Katrina to be ready to go on Election Day, if Blanco's polls are down near Election Day.
But, but, but, uh, but, I thought 2006 and beyond is going to be bad for Republicans. You know, the 6 year itch, corruption, unpopular war, bad Katrina response from Bush. But, but, how could this be? A caring Democrat losing to a hateful Republican who conspired to eradictae all the minority people in N.O. This just can't be. Must be a Republican pollster. Can't be. 2006 is the year of the Rat.
Harry and Nancy and Howard and Katie and the NYT all told me so. I can trust them. They can't be wrong can they?
Bayou Voters are paying the price for racism in 2003. Appararently, they may be willing to look past their bigoted views in 2007.
The question is whether we can get that recall election going and put Bobby J. in place ahead of time.
BOBBY JINDAL FOR GOVERNOR!!!
The poll I'd like to see is between Blanco, Jindal and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu (Senator Mary's brother). If Jindal is below 50% and Landrieu finishes 2nd, that would make me think that Mitch Landrieu will run for governor and hope for a run-off spot, which has worked lika a charm for RATs during the past 10 years or so; the only Republicans to win statewide during the past decade have been Governor Foster and Senator Vitter, each of whom managed to avoid a December run-off (Foster was first elected in 1995 in a run-off, but it was against black ultraliberal Cleo Fields and I don't think we'll ever get that lucky again).
Congressman Jindal needs to declare his gubernatorial candidacy as soon as practicable so that no other Republicans run. He needs to get over 50% in November of 2007.
Can Blanco be recalled? Don't wait, do it now.
Jindal will declare after his election victory to the House in October (barring, of course, no runoff).
"Jindal will declare after his election victory to the House in October (barring, of course, no runoff)."
But former Senator John Breaux, a LA icon, could change the scenario entirely. People in LA will always believe in John Breaux, but many could not tell you a single thing that he ever did!
The early jungle primary was stopped ONLY for congressional races: all other contests, including governor, can be voted on ahead of the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November. LA people usually prefer Saturday elections.
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