NashuaDW (37 posts)
Louisiana Runoff Results
Warning -- It's not pretty
Lithos (23,445 posts)
1. Yeah, expected. Have to shut up, but people seem to have judged her as being the same as her Repub person. I guess her 98% Dem record is somehow equal to whatever her opponent will do.
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yeah... she was too far right to win.
cheapdate (1,666 posts)
7. If she would have rallied the anti-war left in Louisiana it would have made all the difference.
Yeah... it worked so well for Barry in 2008.
brer cat (3,057 posts)
10. What are you basing that on?
I am not from Louisiana and she is not one of my favorites, but I don't understand the total trashing she has been getting on DU. According to the website Open Congress, she has voted with our party 91% of the time. I sure don't know of any republicans that vote with dems that often, but some say we are better off without her. I guess time will tell.
That means she's 9% Rethuglikkkan!!!!
hedgehog (34,348 posts)
54. That 91% could be misleading - I don't know how it's determined, but how do you measure the party loyalty of, for example, someone who votes with the party 9 times to approve post offices, and votes against the party once on an oil pipeline?
NOLALady (3,739 posts)
6. They got what they wanted. They got what they deserve. Louisiana is always in a rush to the bottom! They can't stand it when Mississippi beats them to the bottom.
Pat Nixon (1 post)
13. Complete Sell Out - Who Needs Her. Let's run an actual Democrat and see what happens.
You moling bastards!
davidpdx (16,804 posts)
22. It isn't too surprising, Given the Citizen's United decision and the ability of the Republicans to funnel money into IPE's, there was no doubt she was going to be outspent. November was really where she lost the race given she couldn't get to the 50% mark. It's too bad that Louisiana has that type of voting system. Oregon just said no to that type of system in November.
Or it could be the fact the people of LA have had it with Dems...
BumRushDaShow (15,023 posts)
34. "I'm more sad about than the lack of Dems in the South"
Here are some stats - (I love stats)
BLACK POPULATION
AL = 26.6%
AR = 15.6%
FL = 16.7%
GA = 31.4%
KY = 8.2%
LA = 32.4% MD = 30.1%
MO = 11.7%
MS = 37.4%
NC = 22.0%
SC = 27.9%
TN = 17.0%
TX = 12.4%
VA = 19.7%
WV = 3.6%
Some of the most oppressive GOP states are the ones with the highest population of blacks.
And if you look at the black populations in many of these states, most (although not all) would be Democrats. It is obvious which group needs to be engaged by the Democratic party in these states where you still have a generational hatred for the party due to the past and "boll weevil" Democrats, many of whom are now Republicans. This is the untapped potential. I.e., the Democrats ARE there (the large black populations), but the party (apparently due to regional/cultural issues that may take a long time to resolve) MUST make some effort to engage them. The ones doing the oppression know this and this is their biggest fear - that the black population finally wakes up out of 150+ years of post-slavery post-traumatic stress disorder, to take the reigns of their destiny (it happened before during Reconstruction, which lead to Jim Crow state laws). The federal Civil Rights era was the 2nd Reconstruction, which has now lead to "Jim Crow II" (often popularized as "James Crow, Esq) and a new set of laws to marginalize the power of the black population.
If them uppity ******* would just vote what we tells them too everything would be ok!
PatrynXX (3,588 posts)
24. if only she wasn't another fake Democrat oh gosh run away from Obama and you lose bad. she woulda won if she acted like a progressive smh but no surprise when you vote exactly the same way as the person your running against
Yes. keep telling yourself that it's because they are too far right and didn't support Barry enough...
heaven05 (7,976 posts)
41. Like all the other Democrats who turned tail and ran from and denied loyalty to their Party LEADER, she received the sum total of her cowardice, like most democratic party candidates did on Nov. 4, 2014. Adding much more pain to OUR already battered and bleeding Party. We are in deep doo doo.... if we won't staunch the hemorrhaging, we will bleed to DEATH!!!!!
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