Dems Favored To Pick Up Louisiana House Seat -- GOP Pessimistic

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Dems Favored To Pick Up Louisiana House Seat -- GOP Pessimistic
By Eric Kleefeld - May 3, 2008, 12:07AM


Democrats have a big opportunity to expand their House majority today, and in a very unlikely place. The special election in Louisiana's Sixth District -- which gave 59% of its vote to President Bush in 2004 -- is being held today with Democrat Don Cazayoux favored to beat controversial Republican Woody Jenkins.

The GOP undertook an effort in the home stretch to tie Cazayoux, a social conservative, to the national party in general and Barack Obama in particular as an early experiment in using the Democratic frontrunner as a cudgel against down-ticket Democrats.

However, a Republican source tells TPM Election Central that while the ad has actually had some success, there isn't much optimism that it will be enough to pull Jenkins through: "Cazayoux's negatives have certainly gone up, but the question is whether or not it's been enough to make Woody Jenkins a viable alternative."

Polls close at 9 p.m. ET tonight.

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1. Was all this tying to "Barack Obama in particular"

simply code for racism? Don't know where the 6th District is, but assume from its voting record that it is majority white. If I'm right, and if the district goes Dem, I'm very glad, because the desire for a person who will benefit the district will have trumped racism.

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2. The Dem candidate

is a middle of the roader at best but compared to Woody Jenkins, he's a flaming liberal. Sadly the former house seat of David Vitter and Bob Livingston most likely will be filled by another patriotic republican with conservative values. That race is in the first congressional district which sadly is a bastion of conservatism. The white flight from the New Orleans if you will.