Louisiana has a long (or is it “Long”?) history of Democrat governors coming from WAY behind and still taking the race. Of course, until fairly recently, there were only Democrats running against Democrats, so that is not perhaps a fair assessment of the current situation.
But this peculiar situation of the Democrat being both a more respectable and more conservative candidate for the office than the Republican puts a rather different cast on things.
Is this a test case by the national Democrat party to try out the conservative/libertarian philosophy? If the name of the game is to win elections, and not necessarily to push a reform (or deform, as the case may be) agenda, and the national Republicans seem not to have ANY agenda other than field a candidate, any candidate, in each election, then this may start to pay off big time for the Democrats.
Edwards IS NOT conservative. He may claim to be, but he will be trying to raise taxes first thing.
No.
A liberal Democrat has no chance in the South.
Bel Edwards was very attractive to GOP voters.
I don’t see the national party running Blue Dogs in the South.