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gollygee

(22,336 posts)
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 01:36 PM Jun 2015

President Obama is more popular in deep red Louisiana than Governor Bobby Jindal

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/07/president-obama-popular-bobby-jindal-deep-red-louisiana.html

Gov. Bobby Jindal is going to be running for President, but his approval rating has sunk so low that President Obama is more popular than the Republican in deep red Louisiana.

While discussing Jindal’s failures in Louisiana, The Washington Post dropped this little nugget of information, “Jindal is now so unpopular in deep-red Louisiana that his approval rating plunged to 32 percent in a recent poll — compared with 42 percent for President Obama, who lost the state by 17 percentage points in 2012.”

In our current era of national geographic political polarization, President Obama is not popular in any of the red states. Being more popular than Obama in Louisiana should be a low hurdle for any Republican, but Bobby Jindal is ten points behind the President in a state that Obama was not competitive in during either of his presidential campaigns.

Bobby Jindal is running for president, but he has struggled for years to be more popular than President Obama. In 2013, Obama was 5 points more popular than Jindal. The margin has doubled in the last two years. Jindal’s popularity has plummeted in direct relation to his attempts to impose the Republican/Koch agenda on his state.
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President Obama is more popular in deep red Louisiana than Governor Bobby Jindal (Original Post) gollygee Jun 2015 OP
Ha ha! shenmue Jun 2015 #1
More validation that Jindal is a complete loser. Get rid of him, Louisiana. K&R Jefferson23 Jun 2015 #2
He'll get a nice donation from the Kochs LuvNewcastle Jun 2015 #3
That's pretty bad MFrohike Jun 2015 #4
Jindal has read too much of his own propaganda localroger Jun 2015 #5
... Scurrilous Jun 2015 #6

LuvNewcastle

(16,846 posts)
3. He'll get a nice donation from the Kochs
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 02:46 PM
Jun 2015

and then he'll end his campaign. Lackeys have expenses, too, and the governor grift job isn't going to be around much longer. He needs some funds to get himself established at a good lobbying firm in Washington since he can't stay in Louisiana anymore.

MFrohike

(1,980 posts)
4. That's pretty bad
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 03:08 PM
Jun 2015

Numbers like that make me wonder if Jindal isn't angling for a book deal or a show on Fox.

localroger

(3,627 posts)
5. Jindal has read too much of his own propaganda
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 03:27 PM
Jun 2015

He's never been all that popular here, and has never won an election against a viable opponent. He has mainly benefitted from beingi n the right place at the right time, but he has interpreted his own fortunate success as a mandate he never really had. Now with the oil crash and resulting state budget deficit people are seriously noticing that he is never around because of his national ambitions and he is holding the state budget hostage to a stupid pledge he made to a bunch of people who will probably never set foot in Louisiana. There won't be a recall but he's out on term limits anyway and good riddance when he goes.

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