LA Dems choose their new leader

[funkybutt]

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-22/113846215188730.xml&storylist=louisiana

Even before Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Democratic Party was struggling, in a conservative state skewing more Republican in its voting tendencies, with voters overwhelmingly backing President Bush for re-election and selecting their first GOP U.S. senator since Reconstruction in 2004.

"I think the most polite term that you can use is disarray ... The party apparatus seems to have taken a knockdown, if not a knock out punch," said Elliott Stonecipher, a Louisiana pollster and political analyst.

But James Carville, national Democratic strategist and a Louisiana native, said he doesn't believe Louisiana's Democratic Party is floundering.

[patricia92243]

1. Wonder if Howard Dean could go there and help them get organized? n/t