Can someone explain Louisiana 02 for me?

Caoimhe

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Wed Nov-08-06 05:30 PM
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Can someone explain Louisiana 02 for me?

Looking at the results and there are 13 total candidates! 9 of them are Democrats!

In fact, Democrats came in 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Is that a trifecta? Oh, and also 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th and 13th :lol:

Can someone tell me what I am missing here?

Scroll about halfway down the page http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/house/

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AlCzervik

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Wed Nov-08-06 05:34 PM
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1. i'm pretty sure they have runoff elections, so i guess the 2 winners in each race

with the highest vote counts then have a runoff? I'm guessing here.

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last_texas_dem

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Wed Nov-08-06 05:38 PM
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2. In the Louisiana system

if no candidate receives 50-percent in the general election, the top two vote-getters go into a run-off. Jefferson is the corrupt incumbent Dem, so he had a tougher race than usual this time around; though his New Orleans district is likely to remain a strong Democratic district. If it's like it's been in the past, there will be a run-off between him and the second-highest vote-getter in early December, and whoever prevails in that race will become the new Rep for the district. So it's a safe Dem district, and we have the opportunity to get rid of an embarrassingly corrupt incumbent and replace him with another Democrat.

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Caoimhe

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Wed Nov-08-06 05:51 PM
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3. Thanks!

Very interesting info there, thanks so much for explaining it.

Yes, let's clean our own house too. I am all for getting rid of corrupt dems.

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