[flaglady47]

How did the race come between 2 Democrats? Why was there a primary with other Democrats if Nagin is the incumbant?

You haven't been paying political attention, have you. There was a primary, and neither candidate got a high enough percentage to win outright. So there was a run-off election between the top two vote getters, Nagin and Landrieu. And thank goodness Nagin won over the Dem machine candidate, Landrieu. With Nagin, at least what you see is what you get, he's transparent. The Landrieu family dynasty are a bunch of tax raising crooks.

[Blue Highway]

Actually I was until Couhig dropped out. What I didn't know is that Nagin was thrown in the primary with the lot of other candidates. I had no idea New Orleans had some kind of weird election process. And stranger still having 2 candidates of the same party running against each other.

I guess I knew the primary was a bunch of people running against Nagin, but still normally you don't see a candidate of the same party as an incumbant running against the incumbant.