Not surprising considering Vitter’s personal challenges.
Whoa! Talk about a gut punch!
I hear that dead voters turned out in huge numbers to vote for Edwards.
A lot of GOP voters couldn’t stand Vitter and crossed over to vote for Blue Dog Democrat Edwards.
It helped he was more conservative than Vitter.
GOPe brain trust salute!
The MSM is absolutely giddy this morning reporting this.
How any U.S. Citizen could vote for the party that put and has supported Barack-the-insane Obama in office for 8 years is beyond comprehension unless you are a Muslim, an African, a criminal alien, or a societal parasite.
I am probably going against the grain here, but I think this may be the start of a drip-drip-drip of Democrat victories.
Most of us out here in flyover country absolutely hate Washington DC and David Vitter is a long term citizen of Washington D C. and in that little prostitution scandal just proved it to independents and others who are not rock solid Republicans.
Then add in any perceived failure(s) by Jindal.
I really expect a few more of these “upsets” over the next couple of election cycles.
being Louisiana I suspect heavy voter fraud.
Losses hurt but if we are going to de-rat the GOP instead of abandoning it (unfortunately) then we are going to have to accept the losses.
As Hamilton wisely said, “Better the enemy in their camp than yours”.
CF called this one.
Nominate a thing like Vitter, what do you expect?
Was he really the best GOP-LA could do? If so, that’s a big problem.
Stupid! A flawed Republican is better than any Democrat.
Does he go by “John Bel Edwards” in an attempt to divert attention from his liberalism by evoking long Southern memories of John Bell Hood?
Why the Democrat party even exists in the South is astonishing. If the U.S. didn’t have such an ossified 2 party system, we might see party shifts as In the UK where a party such as the Liberals (early 20th century) could be wiped out in a generation, and the Labor party could be reduced to a rump in an election. You see the same thing in Canada.
If popular will was really in place in the South, you would probably have a very weak Dem party, a declining GOPe, and a rising libertarian/consitutionalist party. Instead we always are given the choice between the less of 2evils.
I’m so tired of Edwards being tagged a blue dog Democrat. He’s a tax and spend liberal and the folks in Louisiana will soon find out the hard way. The last honest moderate Democrats, in my opinion, were Zell Miller and maybe James Traficant. Any Democrat who is called a moderate or Blue Dog is an illusion.
Sex scandals only hurt Republicans. DemocRats are immune.
This was a rebuke of Vitter entirely. The rest of the GOP slate one decisively. The Democrat didn’t win as much as Vitter was punished for a 2007 scandal which shows how stupid some Republicans are.
Is this Edwards related to Edwin Edwards the notoriously corrupt former governor?
I suspect Jindal’s record of shutting down useless bureaucracies and laying off 30,000 state employees may have ticked off those people and then had a ripple effect, in turn ticking off many others whose connections to the public teat were shut down.
I bet Edwards’ first order of business will be to rehire a lot of those money-suckers.
My own, admittedly unscientific observation as an ordinary citizen under previous Democrat administrations, pre-Katrina, was that getting ANYTHING done in Louisiana was a hair-tearing ordeal. Many everyday governmental functions were not computerized; documents were in file cabinets and cardboard boxes.
Many government offices were over-staffed by women whose only function was to tell citizens to come back later.
Auditing was essentially nonexistent, which allowed, for instance, the New Orleans schools’ payroll office—for several years—to continue issuing pay checks to “employees” who had already retired and were drawing pensions, as well as relatives and friends who had NEVER worked for the school district.
So, I’m thinking Gov Edwards will be returning the state to biz as usual, and joy will once again reign. /s