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FixCam: Betting on the Bayou
Tomorrow marks the first vote of the 2007-2008 cycle. It takes place down in Louisana where Rep. Bobby Jindal is trying to erase the memory of his narrow gubernatorial loss in 2003 by winning the seat outright in tomorrow's primary.
To do that, Jindal must win more than 50 percent of the vote against a field that includes two free spenders -- state Sen. Walter Boasso (D) and businessman John Georges (I) -- as well as Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell (D).
All sides acknowledge Jindal is very close to winning without a runoff. The outcome hinges on who decides to turn out tomorrow. One x-factor in the turnout equation: The LSU football team plays at home tomorrow night against Auburn -- will Louisiana voters stop by their polling place before watching the game?
By Chris Cillizza |
October 19, 2007; 5:57 PM ET
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Posted by: con_crusher | October 22, 2007 1:57 AM
response: (lylepink | October 20, 2007 01:12 PM)
Good point. All things considered 60% if outstanding after "that woman." LOL!
Posted by: con_crusher | October 22, 2007 1:56 AM
bsimon, JD, dave, and anyone else who is perplexed at best about the a] failures of our health care/delivery [non]system; b] anticompetitive reliance on the employer based model; and c] federalism, tax/deficit,and bureaucracy "nightmares" of national single payer -
read Broder Sunday. We could all get familiar with the CED proposal at
http://www.ced.org/projects/health.shtml#healthcare200710
and be able to critique it when the web log
next plays up the candidates' various health care proposals.
lyle, Broder thinks the CED proposal is similar to HRC's. I know that you are satisfied with your coverage which is essentially Fed single payer, but I wonder what you will think of this, too.
Posted by: mark_in_austin | October 21, 2007 10:23 AM
Clinton is up big on Republicans in new Missouri general election poll:
http://www.campaigndiaries.com/2007/10/edwards-hits-clintons-electability.html
Posted by: campaigndiaries | October 20, 2007 2:38 PM
con-crusher: This is in response to your response to claudialong. Great posts. I did see somewhere GW was at 24%, and I think Bubba was in the 60s % when he left office and is now the most thought of pol in the world.
Posted by: lylepink | October 20, 2007 1:12 PM
response to: (claudialong | October 20, 2007 08:04 AM)
Are you sure W.'s approval ratings are in the 20's? I've tracked them from low to mid 30's (which is still nothing to brag about):
Posted by: con_crusher | October 20, 2007 11:22 AM
response to: (claudialong | October 20, 2007 08:04 AM)
Great post. If you're a Republican president, you know you've got problems with Cons (on Fox News for that matter) call you on a campaign promise to INCREASE non-government spending. If you truly want to serve the country, winning isn't everything. Yeah, he "won" (using the term lightly after Florida) the presidency and was "re-elected" (using the term lightly after DieBold), but at what cost? No and again no. By any objective standards, America under Bush Jr. is worse off than when Clinton left the White House in 2000. If George W. Bush and Republicans had been truly intent on improving the lives of non-billionaires in America, those approval ratings would be respectable and Republicans would still control Congress. Republicans and George W. Bush are a little bit funny. They berated Clinton for extracting "dignity" from the White House. But in retrospect, what's worse - eh hem, gettin' your groove on at work, or lying to justify a war? Republicans love being president, Senators and Congresspeople--they just don't wanna do the work once they get elected.
Posted by: con_crusher | October 20, 2007 11:08 AM
'Fox News anchor slams Bush's SCHIP double standard.
Yesterday, on Fox News' All Star Panel, conservative Roll Call editor Mort Kondracke slammed President Bush's SCHIP "compromise," which "cut[s] off about a million children from the rolls." Kondracke called Bush out on making a prominent 2004 campaign promise to expand children's health insurance:
You have George Bush, who promised in 2004 at the Republican National Convention that he was going to cover millions of children who were not covered by SCHIP if he was reelected? And what does he do? He proposes a bill that would result in almost a million kids losing their coverage from the level it's at. It's no wonder Bush's approval ratings is in the 30's.'
they're actually in the 20's, mort, but what on earth is this about? kondracke calling for poor children to get health care? truly, climate change has happened and hell has frozen over!
Posted by: claudialong | October 20, 2007 8:04 AM
kingofzouk exercises every day by doing ankle-grabs.
Posted by: con_crusher | October 20, 2007 2:04 AM
response to: (RUFUS11_33 | October 19, 2007 06:43 PM)
kingofzouk can't talk right now. He's eating a hotdog.
Posted by: con_crusher | October 19, 2007 10:27 PM
kingofzouk acts a little bit funny to get attention. No big deal there.
Posted by: con_crusher | October 19, 2007 10:26 PM
Are you being rhetorical?
"will Louisiana voters stop by their polling place before watching the game?"
Are U insane.
Football coaches earn 10+ what governors earn.
Why would that be?
Who gives a flip about the governor of Louisiana?
Geaux LSU!!!
Posted by: school_is_in_session | October 19, 2007 8:22 PM
yet another one bites the dust. Are you listening zouk?
"Martinez resigns as general chair of RNC
By: MARTIN KADY II | 10/19/2007 12:01 PM
Blog: Fla. senator steps down during a tough time for the Republican Party."
Posted by: RUFUS11_33 | October 19, 2007 6:43 PM
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