David Duke v Barack Obama

[Nichlemn]

Edwin Edwards defeated Duke 61-39 in 1991. While Edwards was white, he was also known to be corrupt even then and would have easily lost to a non-Klansman opponent. Also, presumably LA was more racist 23 years ago. So Obama.

It matters how this scenario came to pass, though (and is it for the Presidency? It wasn't specified). How did David Duke become the Republican nominee? Either he's managed to completely redeem himself (did he singlehandedly save the world or something?) or it was some kind of nefarious trick. In the former scenario, he wins LA because he's done something big to overcome his obvious issues. In the latter, there's a good chance that he ends up being a de facto third party nominee with the "true" Republican candidate being a third party or write-in candidate, in which case he comes third.

[Nichlemn]

I think Duke would win in a landslide, winning a solid majority of whites.

You are aware that Lousiana is one of few states that actually trended to Obama.

In 2012... after massively trending against him in 2008. He still did worse than Kerry and (I think) every other Democrat except the landslide losers of Mondale and McGovern.