McAllister won because Jindal was backing Riser and tried to engineer a rigged outcome for Riser. Jindal has lost much popularity in the state. Riser though would have probably been more conservative in his voting record than McAllister, but I think McAllister will be more conservative than Rodney Alexander was. Time will tell. I was surprised that Riser lost.
Well, the district does include LaSalle Parish and some of those other Dixiecrat parishes that, after voting overwhelmingly for Bush over Gore, voted overwhelmingly for the Democrat Blanco over Jindal in the 2003 gubernatorial runoff because Jindal was too dark-skinned for their taste ....
And the CD is, what, 25% black? With Cleo Fields and others telling black voters to cast their ballots for the reparations-promising McAllister, that gave him a good base of voters with which to begin.
Is it too early to start a petition for Elbert Guillory to run in the LA-05 next year?
My thoughts are the same, this was more a vote against Jindal.