LA-2 Runoff Results

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It'll be interesting to see which precincts voted for each candidate

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It'll be interesting to see which precincts voted for each candidate

How much you want to bet the Republican precints went heavily for Jefferson?

Not sure... depends how racially polarised this result turns out to be.

He's up to 57% now, btw.

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58% now.

Another slap in the face for the Landrieu's by the looks of it.

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The parts of Jefferson parish in this district are mainly black aren't they? (going off memory here, could well be wrong).

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I love how it's all gone quiet here...

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Little snippet from an ap article...

The scandal turned the race into a debate largely divided along racial lines, an age-old dynamic in this city that has intensified since Hurricane Katrina displaced large numbers of blacks and upended their demographic and political dominance.

Whites, who overwhelmingly voted for Carter in the primary and have been her most enthusiastic financial backers, believe a Jefferson win would confirm this city's image as corrupt and untrustworthy as it asks the nation to fund its recovery from Katrina.

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And from another article:

Accomplishing a feat widely considered impossible, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin managed to get re-elected in May by stitching together an unlikely coalition of working-class black voters and white conservatives.

Now, a few months later, it appears that U.S. Rep. William Jefferson is trying to replicate Nagin's feat, or at least compose a variation on the same theme.

In the fight of his political life, the embattled congressman is running to both the political left and the right of state Rep. Karen Carter

The two New Orleans Democrats face off Saturday for the 2nd Congressional District seat in a runoff expected to turn on their ability to broaden their established bases along racial lines and to appeal to Jefferson Parish voters, whose influence in the district has expanded since last year's flood emptied New Orleans neighborhoods.

On one hand, Jefferson, for the first time in his long career in public office, is touting his conservative votes in Congress against same-sex marriage and late-term abortions. And he is attacking Carter for having "sold out our family values" through her avowedly abortion-rights stance in the Legislature and her opposition to scheduling a statewide vote on a constitutional amendment that sought to define marriage as the union of "one man and one woman."

At the same time, the eight-term congressman also has been trotting out his liberal credentials as an outspoken advocate of displaced public housing residents and out-of-work public school teachers and hammering away at the campaign contributions Carter has collected from Republicans.

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64% in, Jefferson is up to 59%.

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Why are you up at 4 am?

Good question. I don't know actually.

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Louisiana had a higher percentage of voters vote for a Republican for Congress this year than any other state.

Due to the open-primary system and the culture of not bothering to run serious (or any a lot of the time) candidates against entrenched incumbents, House popular vote figures are even more useless in Louisiana than in most other states.

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If he can avoid jail before then, his chances of winning would probably be better than under the current system; I'm taking a guess that the affluent whites who voted so strongly for Landrieu and now Carter, are far more likely to be registed Indies than the poor blacks that make up Jefferson's base.