Louisiana 2023 gubernatorial election megathread

[Matty]

https://twitter.com/tencor_7144/status/1713369915200053658



Black turnout looks like a dumpster fire, and the margins themselves look a bit yucky too

[Matty]

https://twitter.com/tencor_7144/status/1713372453991329975

[Matty]

https://twitter.com/tencor_7144/status/1713373351681388891

[Matty]

This state’s Democratic Party is probably in the worst shape it’s been…ever? Not sure what can be done to turn things around at this point. We’ve got absolutely no bench.

Why is your state party so much worse than other dem state parties at getting out the black vote?

[Matty]

Multiple people now calling this for Landry.

an absolute embarrassment for the democratic party. The gop had 10 candidates, the dems only had 2.

In his concession speech, the leading dem should call out the state party by name and should also call out black political organizers in nola and BR for sitting on their asses.

[Matty]

First election in a while democrats didn’t over perform. Wow.

Riverwalk is right — if Dem overperformance is coming in large part from Dobbs, this is exactly the place that pattern would break.

Wonder if this will translate in the two elections coming up in a couple of weeks.

Not sure if this was about Dobbs or not, but black turnout was nuclear wasteland bad for dems tonight. Worse than 2010, 2014, etc

Tate reeves should be relieved

[Matty]

I really think the what happened was black turnout simply cratered due to an underfunded gotv campaign

Dems have no “supply” of high turnout college educated whites in the state that reliably show up

That’s all this was

[Matty]

https://twitter.com/tencor_7144/status/1713396935187480960

[Matty]

Seeing some chatter on X that LSU having a home game tonight may have dampened dem and black turnout in EBR

That’s a 100+k people that potentially did not vote due to tailgating all day plus being at game tonight

[Matty]

Why is Louisiana so pro-life, even compared to other conservative states?

Catholicism