re: Rispone won in 40 parishes and still lost, wtf

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Look at the primary results in places like Franklin, Richland, and Lasalle, then compare them to yesterday's results. JBE did much better there and elsewhere in N LA than he did in October.

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Cool - So we all agree that Rispone f’ed up by slandering a conservative candidate.

Maybe those running in 2023 will learn something.

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The machine got cranking here in EBRP about 3 weeks ago and you could tell the motivation was there.

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Yes because EBR & Orleans are much better since JBE has taken over. A virtual oasis.

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The state GOP needs to ensure there is only 1 candidate.

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Those frickers can’t run a campaign and an attempt to choose a single party candidate would lead some potential candidates feeling alienated because the party is supporting weaker ones just because they are closer to the party elites.

Yes and no. The most effective are the African American churches. Greater St. Stephen's did it all through the collection plate

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It really is disheartening that just a couple of super concentrations of people can essentially control the entire rest of the state.

But it is what it is.


Though, I have serious doubts that the founding fathers ever intended to allow such a populous to have so much voting power.

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Yep, when the Constitution was signed, slavery was still the law of the land.

What percentage of LA State taxes do these 3 counties pay?

Go back and look at any dem victory.

Red = rural, reactionary, white

Blue = urban, liberal, progressive, all races

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What percentage of LA State taxes do these 3 counties pay?

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trick question, 0.

Where are you from?

The Democratic Party of Louisiana finally got its act together. In the last month, a massive get-out-the-vote process paid off bigtime. My wife and I were called over 20 times during that period, called by Democratic operatives and volunteers. I worked phone banks (as a volunteer) six times during that time and made hundreds of calls to suburban Independents and Democrats in EBR, Jefferson, and St Tammany parishes. Most seemed to be undecided white folks and not one had voted for Edwards in the October primary. Most had not voted at all.

The Edwards campaign turned many of those people out and it helped a lot. Anti-Trump feeling helped with these people as well. Between 1/3 and 1/2 the people I called mentioned something negative about Trump coming to Louisiana so many times about our election. (We had a prompt question asking of the President influenced their opinion on the election.) One thing for sure, Dems (for 2020) are going to have a good bank of voters in those parishes that are NOT Trumpkins.