Galactic Overlord
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« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2006, 12:35:44 AM » |
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« Edited: May 21, 2006, 12:38:05 AM by Galactic Overlord »
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Losing an election does not necessarily sideline one's political career, but failing to oust a not-so-popular incumbent in your own backyard is defintely a setback. Landrieu seemed rather bland, he had a nice guy image and all, but not a lot of passion and grit. Nagin, say what you will, could project a "man of the people" image.
I don't know what he does after this. Challenging Blanco would be very iffy, unless he changes his campaign style. Republicans will be emboldened to challenge him for his current post in 2007. He won 53%-46% last time, solid but not a spectacular margin, but it helped that no Republican was strong enough to hold him under 50% (frankly at least two of his opponents were has-beens), yet together they still made up 46% of the vote. So it may get tougher going for Mitch.
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