re: Eddie Rispone's grifting carpetbagger campaign manager is aw shucksing the loss

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Ardoin beat a black and a black candidate in a statewide race has never showed well.

The lady had no money and no help.

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yeah she barely even had a website, right? Comparing Ardoin's result to a contested race at the top of the ticket is not a useful comparison.

The Ardoin result was however interesting for the fact it shows that someone can put a D by their name and do nothing else and get 40% of the vote- although that was itself inflated by the high pro-Edwards turnout in the cities. Still.

Flipping that around though- hypothetically, putting an R by your name, do nothing else, and in a statewide election you might get 45% of the vote against a D just based on the R by your name. Looking at it that way, it makes the millions Eddie Rispone spent on the election look like an even worse investment.