Comments on: Bobby Jindal Wins Louisiana Governor’s Race

By: Bruce Moomaw

Bruce Moomaw — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:50:23 +0000

Incidentally, the Democrats pretty much plastered the GOP in most other Louisiana races -- which seems to confirm that Jindal, like Ahnold in our own state in last year's elections (and quite a few Democratic and GOP guvernatorial candidates in other states), was pretty much an outlier. Last year Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Minnesota also reelected GOP governors, while Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming reelected Democratic ones (all of these except RI and Minnesota being landslides).

By: Bruce Moomaw

Bruce Moomaw — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:44:15 +0000

There may very well be one or two more sprinkled in during the last couple of decades that I've missed.

By: Janis Gore

Janis Gore — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:54:13 +0000

Thank you, Mr. Moomaw. I wasn't aware of Mr. Locke.

By: Bruce Moomaw

Bruce Moomaw — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:29:30 +0000

Democrat Gary Locke of Washington State -- despite his name -- was Oriental. Bill Richardson -- despite his name -- is at least mostly Hispanic (a fact that he never lets the voters forget).

Of all these, the only one that really amazes me is Wilder in Virginia -- 17 years before any other state in the Union. Robert E. Lee and Harry Byrd must have twirled in their graves.

By: Janis Gore

Janis Gore — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:51:08 +0000

Let's try an exercise. How many non-white governors of any states have there been since Reconstruction?

Douglas Wilder and Deval Patrick. The Hawaiians. Who else?

By: Bruce Moomaw

Bruce Moomaw — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:16:59 +0000

I agree with Davebo: the most remarkable thing about him is that he's promised to push teaching Intelligent Design in Louisiana's schools. As for Angevin's wishful thinking: Deval Patrick took that same Massachusetts district (the least Democratic in the state) by just 1% at the same time that he won the state of Massachusetts by 21 points last year; and Jindal's Louisiana win -- although personally impressive -- seems to have been mostly a reaction to Kathleen Blanco's own ten-thumbed performance after Katrina, which just proves that SOME politics is indeed local. If Angevin wants to see what's really become of that huge margin the Dems had over the GOP in 2006 -- namely, that it's grown slightly huger -- he/she is advised to look at the Web's central compendium of political polls at "Polling Report", and specifically at all the recent polls comparing Democratic and Republican popularity.

By: Davebo

Davebo — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:56:42 +0000

A Rhodes scholar who supports teaching intelligent design in public schools.

Right....

He's an opportunist plain and simple.

By: CALIFORNIA YANKEE

CALIFORNIA YANKEE — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:59:50 +0000

Jindal Did It...

He did it. U.S. Representative Bobby Jindal, the 36-year-old conservative Republican and the son of Indian immigrants, defeated 11 opponents to become Louisiana's first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction Jindal won 54 percent of the votes. More th...

By: Steph

Steph — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:54:29 +0000

Louisiana has been saved!

Now I wish someone would come and rescue Illinois from the democrat state rapists.

By: Angevin13

Angevin13 — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:15:31 +0000

First, Niki Tsongas defeats her no-name Republican opponent in uber-liberal Massachusetts by only 6 percentage points, now a Republican wins the Louisiana governorship. So much for that 2008 anti-Bush, anti-GOP landslide we keep hearing about. And so much for an MSM that does little else than carry water for the Democrats. If the MSM were interested in news, the fact that the Oxford-educated, Roman Catholic-converted, Republican son of Hindu immigrants just won the Louisiana gubernatorial election as the first non-white candidate in Louisiana since Reconstruction would be major news.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:26:21 +0000

Something for Democrats to remember: politics is local.