Blanco takes it

[DJcairo]

Democrat Wins Runoff Election in Louisiana
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

Published: November 16, 2003


NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 15 — Lt. Gov. Kathleen B. Blanco, a Democrat, defeated Piyush Jindal, the Republican whiz kid, to become the first woman elected governor of Louisiana in a runoff on Saturday.

With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, Ms. Blanco finished with 52 percent of the vote, The Associated Press reported.

Ms. Blanco carried her native Cajun area and trounced Mr. Jindal in New Orleans, where he had the endorsement of the Democratic mayor. Ms. Blanco also held her own in Mr. Jindal's home city of Baton Rouge, while Mr. Jindal ran strong in the heavily Republican suburbs of New Orleans, The A.P. said.

"The people of Louisiana have spoken," Ms. Blanco said. "We have sent a new message out to the nation — that this is a new Louisiana."

http://nytimes.com/2003/11/16/national/16LOUI.html?hp

[The Screaming Icon]

1. New Louisiana! WHOOO!!!

I live in Blanco's hometown, Lafayette, where she wasn't even expected to win but did.

This campaign proved the truth of what I've always said: the larger a candidate's sign has to be, the worse he/she is. Here we had cars with Bobby Jindal signs covering entire doors, so now we see how well that works.

To paraphrase Bob Dole talking about George Bush in '88, Blanco "offers a record, not a resume."

Onward to 2004!

[lastliberalintexas]

3. "wasn't even expected to win but did."

From what I understand, the pundits were really pushing the idea that this was a lost cause for Dems, probably in an attempt to decrease turnout. I'm glad to see that people ignored the pundits- or maybe were even inspired to vote to spite them!

My neighbor state is definitely winnable next year- Landrieu last year, Blanco and other state wide pickups this year. At least LA is waking up, even if the rest of the South remains comatose.


BTW- I'm in the Beaumont area, so we're almost neighbors. After all, the rest of my state considers us part of LA anyway!

[Hieronymus]

2. It's always been

a puzzlement how cons convince so many that they're pro Jewish and pro black.

[Punkingal]

4. dupe

please see:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=108&topic_id=85525