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Sounds like they are going to work the 3rd out of Lafayette rather than go deep into the bayou country....... Good luck to those that are going....

Looks to me like they're going to work Lake Charles rather than Lafayette. I may go over to Lafayette on my own as half my family came from there a couple of generations back, and I've worked that area in the oilfield many times.

"Sounds like they are going to work the 3rd out of Lafayette rather than go deep into the bayou country....... Good luck to those that are going....

Yeah, we have a number of out-of-staters here in Lafayette who are really in town to help Billy Tauzin III in Iberia Parish, just to our south and out of our 7th congressional district. Even though the early projections were that Tauzin would have a cake walk in his race and things would be tight for our candidate Charles Boustany here in the 7th, the reverse has turned out to be true. Tauzin ran some attack ads against his Republican opponent Charles Romero in the November general primary that left Romero and his supporters quite angry at the outcome, since Democrat Charles Melancon only beat Romero into the runoff spot by a hair, I think it was less than 1% of the vote off the top of my head. Since the November primary Romero has refused to endorse Tauzin and Melancon and his people have worked real hard in Iberia Parish, which puts Tauzin's chances of victory in jeopardy. So most of the help that has been imported is for Tauzin.

On the brighter side of things, Charles Boustany is not quite a lock to put Democrat Willie Landry Mount away to win the 7th congressional district seat, but he is the clear frontrunner and I expect him to be elected.

I'll probably put up a Friday post on what the outlook is for both Tauzin and Boustany when I get some better information on what is going down. We usually see some late polls from Verne Kennedy of Market Research Insight of Pensacola, Florida just before the elections. They will probably give me a good idea, since Kennedy has a pretty good track record in Louisiana polling. I'll ping you if I put something up deport.

And thanks for the ping here.