[wylenetheconservative]

Which 2 times are you talking about? The only African-American candidate in LA that I can recall in recent years is William Jefferson for Governor, and he was the only Democrat running, so there was no runoff. African Americans don't turn out HEAVILY for primaries because they generally have to be turned out by the party with incentives. Obviously some percentage turns out on their own, but it is a relatively small percentage.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

You are forgetting the '95 Gubernatorial primary, when Cleo Fields emerged from left field to knock Landrieu and Ieyoub out of the runoff.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Cleo Fields, who was a Congressman from 1993 until 1997 from a grotesque black-majority district that was decalared unconstitutional and eliminated in mid-decade, made the run-off for Governor in 1995. IIRC, he beat out Mary Landrieu for the second run-off spot by less than 1%, and proceeded to lose big in the run-off to Mike Foster. Landrieu used her fame from the race to run for the Senate the next year, and cheated her way in.