LA and NC 2016 Congressional Races

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LA-Sen: Some novel is accusing Boustany of having a prostitution scandal. There's not much, other than the author's allegations, to back it up, but here it is:

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Boustany is the best of the Republicans in this race, IMO, and is a good guy, so I'd hate to see him do poorly because of something like this (esp. if unsubstantiated).

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^ Boustany better then Kennedy? On which issues?

On not being a self-serving opportunist with no principles.

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^ Yeah, a lot of that stuff, the 'prostitutes over patriots' ad especially, wouldn't have flown in most other states.

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LA-Sen: The quality is kinda crappy, but here's a forum with Campbell, Fayard, Boustany and Kennedy (starts around the 43 min mark).

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NC-Sen: Republicans worried Burr isn't taking his race seriously.

LA-Sen: Campbell releases his tax returns, Fayard won't.

In one of the stranger photo ops I've seen of this race, Maness seems to be appealing to the alt right at a Milo Yiannopoulos event:




The things you'll do when you're trailing freakin David Duke in the polls...

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^ The Twitter wars between Duke and Maness have actually been pretty hilarious to watch.

Other than Fayard, Maness has probably attacked Duke the most. Many Duke tweeters have been posting unflattering (to say the least) memes of Maness.

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LA-Sen: Well, I guess Maness is okay with sexual assault:

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- Fayard is being roundly criticized for an ad where she tries to link Campbell to David Duke, with selective editing.

- John Bel Edwards appears in a Campbell ad.

- Cruz endorses Fleming, though it may be too late.

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^ I wish, but even in 2014, Landrieu's electorate was near 30%, even in early voting, IIRC.

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^ Really? How? There aren't any counties in LA, so IDK where they'd get results from...

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R+1!

I am not at all tired of all this winning, winning, winning. It's over for the Democrat party.

R+0

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What was the reason for combining LA and NC in the first place?

Its started out as a personal thing for me. When I started doing this in 2014, I was ping-ponging back between the two states and wanted to put things in one thread.

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What was the reason for combining LA and NC in the first place?

Its started out as a personal thing for me. When I started doing this in 2014, I was ping-ponging back between the two states and wanted to put things in one thread.

It started in 2014? For some reason I thought you were doing these for more cycles than that.

Ah, right

I did do one for 2012, but started it kinda late into the cycle.

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LA-03

Higgins (green) - 56%
Angelle (orange) - 44%

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^ Yeah, they just elected Sharon Weston Broome as Baton Rouge Mayor (pro-life black Dem).

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At the risk of blatant self promotion, an article I wrote for DDHQ on the runoff.

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^ I'd bet that between Gisclair, Hill, or Danahay, one of them has the most R legislative seat held by a Dem, outside of Appalachia.