bobby jindal (R) elected governor of Louisiana

How did he do it? He went to North Louisiana and told everyone he is a christian. What a great way to run a democracy. I predict Louisiana will regret this election in the not too distant future.

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so I wasn't privy to the goings on in the country. All I had was TV, and that did a lot of good informing me :sarcasm:

it's politically dangerous to stand up to bu$hco

Bobby Jindal is yet another religious intolerant whose idea of America is freedom so long as it means anyone just like him.

John Breaux would have beaten Jindal, probably about 60% to 30%.

The Democrats should have picked one candidate and told the others to drop out....and that one candidate should have been John Breaux.

I just posted this in another Jindal thread, thought I might as well post it in this thread too.

as far as I know.

They BOTH were listed as living in Texas....couldn't Breaux have done a Cheney, and just moved back to Louisiana three months before the election or something?

Oh I forgot....ONLY Republicans are allowed to do stuff like that.

Louisianna did this..knowing what the bushits did to New Orleans and the majority of the dumbshits just don't care.

They're not Christian cause Christ was a man of Peace so they can just call themselves the fucking worshippers of the loser bush.

Now they can get rid of him and not lose a Senate seat

I may be utterly ignorant, but I thought American elections were always in November in even years? Or is that only for Congress?

And it was the the primary, the general election will be in November.

I thought the primary was just to select the candidate of each party. If it was the primary, how do they already know which party has won?

and if no one gets 50% plus one vote there is a run off between the top two.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/10/jindal_wins_louisiana_gov_race.php

"Jindal, the 36-year-old son of Indian immigrants, carried more than half the vote against 11 opponents. With about 87 percent of the vote in, Jindal had 53 percent with 588,002 — more than enough to win outright and avoid a Nov. 17 runoff.

When he takes office in January, Jindal will become the nation's youngest governor in office."

He is governor-elect. There will be no more elactions.

Jindal avoided having to have a run off but there will be a general election.

And why isn't the AP aware of this?

And how are the brim and perch in the Toledo Bend reservoir? Edible? Poisoned? I ate quite a few from there in my youth.

He won the governor's race outright. But there are other offices also on the ballot in which there was no clear (50+%) winner. For those offices, there will be a general election next month.

but Louisiana is not in the United States. It is a separate entity; a third world country if you will. (Just kidding. But not by much.)

Elections for U.S. Congress, Senate and President are held in November of odd years. States hold their elections whenever the hell they want. Mississippi will hold their statewide elections the first Tuesday in November this year.

And another nice Bayou twist from Louisiana, they hold their elections on SATURDAYS and residents drink heavily before noon and often in public. Let the good times roll.

In every other state they have party primaries sometime before November and then each party's nominee is on the ballot in November. Whoever gets the most votes in November wins.

In Louisiana, we have a "primary" election and a "runoff". The primary is not a party primary, it's a free for all. Anybody (assuming they meet the requirements) can put their name on the ballot. If no candidate gets 50% + 1 vote the top two vote getters go to a runoff. If a candidate does get 50% + 1 vote then there is no runoff, that candidate wins the election and there is no runoff.

As far as when dates are held it depends. We elect our Governor the year before presidential elections, so as not to coincide with national politics. On those years the primary is held in October and the runoff is held in November.

On federal election years where we elect our Senators and Congressmen, the primary is held on federal election day in November and the runoffs are held later in December.

BTW, you are not ignorant of US politics at all, just unaware of different rules in a tiny portion of the country. I'm sure that if I went over to the UK forum I would be equally confused in a discussion of how the local politics of Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland work.

He converted to Catholicism, stressed the fact that he was born in Baton Rouge, professed extreme right religious / political views, cultivated the support of a bunch of Republican good old boys and won the support of big business. And of course, he was aided by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent voter displacement. His political views are condemnable and reactionary, but his ascendancy to the governorship of a state that elected David Duke in the not-so-distant past is no mean feat.

He was in the state legislature. Edwin Edwards beat him in a landslide when he tried to run for Governor.

Lots of people in NOLA were not all that happy last night. Of course, most of people probably didn't even know because LSU was playing in Baton Rouge and football trumps politics every time in the South.

We are screwed!

He'd been polling above 50% for quite some time. I could've not turned on a TV all night confident that I'd read in the paper the next morning that he'd won with no runoff.

You HAVE to know that a lot of aid was deliberately withheld from Blanco (the woman democRAT governor, as the press always referred to her)
Now that "one of theirs" is in place, I would look for a lot of "new" aid coming your way. The best way to make him shine, is for him to accomplish what the "woman-democRAT governor" could not accomplish.

Of course HE will get credit for what was rightfully due you all, but as long as you start getting it, that's still a good thing..