Do we have a legitimately elected Louisiana governor

Rispone Won!

Same with other "red" states.
It defies logic, same with other elections we've had recently.

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Same with other "red" states.
It defies logic, same with other elections we've had recently.

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Louisiana has never once, even for a minute, been a traditional red state.

We’re the nation’s preeminent social welfare state and have been for a century.

Maybe, but possibly not. That 2019 election was surrounded by all manner of shady f$&kery

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Rispone Won!

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By a lo….. well, at least a little.

Rispone is lucky that he lost by as little as he did. A more seasoned pol could have possibly beaten Edwards. That being said, if I am a Republican organizer, I would be concerned about Jefferson Parish. In 15 years you will have a majority minority electorate.

White people better start fricking and keeping the babies

At this point, the only thing I'm worried about is preventing a repeat of 2015 for the 2023 election.

I'm already seeing today's Louisiana GOP politicians taking up familiar roles from 2015 and it scares the shite out of me.

If you have absolutely no clue about past and current Louisiana politics, then side, I can see how you might subscribe to the stolen election/Dominion theory.

But to those who have paid attention for a long time, it’s pretty obvious how JBE could have legitimately won. The hardcore leftists who always vote Democrat in the national races were never going to vote for Vitter or Eddie in the 2015 or 2019 runoff, and at the same time JBE was the ideal Democrat to get the votes of the rural, white social conservative Democrats in Louisiana who vote GOP in national races.

Had it been a black Democrat vs Vitter or Eddie, many of those old time rural votes that went for JBE would have gone GOP. It’s the old Edwin Edwards white voting block.

But I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for explaining reason rather than agreeing that tens of thousands of voting machines changed votes for Edwards.

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JBE was the ideal Democrat to get the votes of the rural, white social conservative Democrats in Louisiana who vote GOP in national races.

Had it been a black Democrat vs Vitter or Eddie, those many of those old time rural votes that went for JBE would have gone GOP. It’s the old Edwin Edwards white voting block.

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I wonder what a rematch of Vitter vs JBE and Rispone vs JBE would look like for this bloc of voters after a year and a half of JBE's covid tyranny and pandering to national democrats on climate change, LGBT issues, and so on.

Those same people foolishly kept insisting for years that JBE is not so bad and he's actually a conservative dixiecrat.

The evidence told otherwise but they didn't want to believe it. They want the conservative dixiecrats back so bad and JBE is nothing more than a mirage.

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Jeff Landry is going to go scorched earth on his GOP opponents. I can just sense it. Even the ones who align closely with him politically.

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I wouldn't mind that at all if I knew for a fact that Louisiana GOP voters are capable of taking the L and making the correct choice in the runoff like people in other states do.

But for two cycles in a row, they have demonstrated they are not sensible, rational, pragmatic and transactional enough to do that.

Those voters can't be trusted so yeah, I'm scared shitless of a possible repeat of 2015.