"Landrieu, meanwhile, picked up endorsements from the Republican Party"

wndycty

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Mon May-22-06 07:19 AM
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"Landrieu, meanwhile, picked up endorsements from the Republican Party"

Edited on Mon May-22-06 07:25 AM by wndycty

Go ahead Nagin haters, MAKE SHIT UP to bash him. This is not from Drudge but the New Orleans Times=Picayune. I'm not even going to pretend that Landrieu is a Republican, but I raise this point for those who want to call Nagin a Republican. I think there has been a lot of MISINFORMATION thrown out there to do Nagin in. So many people have called Nagin a Republican, then why the FUCK did the GOP endorse his opponent? Lets not let the facts get in the way of mudslinging.

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Landrieu, meanwhile, picked up endorsements from the Republican Party, a large contingent of elected officials of both races, and Bishop Paul Morton, pastor of the state's largest black church.

The results Saturday suggest that Nagin managed to build back a sizable portion of his once-enviable white base, an accomplishment that likely put him over the top.
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http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tpupdates/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tpupdates/archives/2006_05_20.html

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wakeme2008

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Mon May-22-06 07:26 AM
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1. IMHO the Repugs wanted Nagin to lose and

blame all NOLA problems on him. But he won so they are starting other rumorers

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Gman

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Mon May-22-06 07:28 AM
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2. I don't know because I'm not there bue

it seems to me there's no way Nagin could have won on the strength of the Black vote alone. Last I heard NOLA was majority white now. So there's no way Nagin could have won without some significant white support. He had it when he won the first time. If he in fact lost the white vote after Katrina, he does appear to have it back.

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Mon May-22-06 07:36 AM
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3. Are you implying....

...that a "white" vote is a republican vote?

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Gman

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Mon May-22-06 07:52 AM
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6. No because it wouldn't make sense that

if the GOP endorsed Nagin and the white vote is predominantly white then Nagin drew Republican votes. I think its likely true that Nagin did draw a lot of white Republican votes. From what i understand, Nagin had a lot of the white Republican votes the first time he was elected. I'm just saying he either never lost them or if he did, he got them back. That does not state an absolute of the white vote is Republican.

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Mon May-22-06 08:24 AM
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7. Nagin won on the Black vote & the conservative White vote....

Quite a few Blacks from NOLA voted absentee or were bused in from places like Houston--where I live. Bused in by voting rights advocates, not Republicans.

Nagin and Landrieu did not differ significantly on any of the issues of concern to voters � education, housing, rebuilding neighborhoods and attracting jobs. If people disenchanted with Nagin were looking for a change, analysts say, Landrieu likely could have benefited from finding a way to present himself as a candidate with different ideas rather than a candidate with a different style of implementing the same ideas./i]

http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3878784.html

Nagin is term-limited. He can't run for re-election again.

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brindis_desala

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Mon May-22-06 07:39 AM
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4. Don't overplay Nagin's popularity. His victory was largely

symbolic, even his own supporters view him suspiciously. The Big Easy was allowed to "go under" because it's seen as mostly poor and black and the down home folks didn't appreciate the obvious power grab from outsiders looking to profit from their misery.
Commentary: By Keeping Nagin in Office, Big Easy Blacks Were Making a Larger Statement
Date: Sunday, May 21, 2006
By: Deborah Mathis, BlackAmericaWeb.com
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/mathis522

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Pirate Smile

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Mon May-22-06 07:51 AM
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5. Thanks for posting that link. More from it:

Edited on Mon May-22-06 08:03 AM by Pirate Smile

But, make no mistake: There was more than forgiveness behind Nagin�s victory over Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu in Saturday�s election. And there was more than hope at play. There was a political statement being made too -- namely, that the citizens of a majority black city were not about to relinquish what power they had to a white man.

�Whenever folks say that it�s not about race, it ends up being about race,� said my friend, Monica Pierre, a wildly popular media maven in New Orleans. �For some blacks, the election became more about battling the perceived power grab by whites bent on electing a white mayor.�

It�s not that no black New Orleanians voted for Landrieu; of course some did, as the lieutenant governor�s family has long enjoyed popular support among blacks, who helped put the candidate�s father, the late Moon Landrieu, in the mayor�s seat and his sister, Mary, in the U.S. Senate. Besides, as Pierre suggests, many black voters were embarrassed by and disappointed in Nagin.

But, as Pierre points out, �It was more important for African-Americans to be the deciding factor on who gets elected.�'

Frankly, I didn't "get" what this mayoral race was about until after it was over.

I thought it was just about the two Dems running. I didn't realize all the racial politics involved and that was just naive on my part. It just makes me sad to see us fighting so between ourselves.

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Mon May-22-06 10:25 PM
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8. Kick

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