Posted on 07/28/2015 4:26:27 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Democrat John Bel Edwards, left, has taken the lead over Sen. David Vitter and the other Republicans in the race. A widely respected firm’s latest poll on the Louisiana governor's race — a poll The Independent obtained through a source before its public release — shows the lone Democrat in the contest, Amite state Rep. John Bel Edwards, with a six-point lead over previous (and, as conventional wisdom would have it) frontrunner U.S. Sen. David Vitter.
Conducted sometime in late June by Market Research Insight, the respected and frequently used polling firm of Verne Kennedy, the poll shows Edwards with 30 percent support in the race, followed by Vitter at 24, Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle at 14 and Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne at 12 percent. Twenty percent of respondents were undecided.
The figures are derived from respondents who either chose a candidate or indicated they were leaning toward that candidate. The pick/lean ratios for the candidates in the poll were Edwards 19/11, Vitter 20/4, Angelle 10/4 and Dardenne 9/3.
A similar MRI/Kennedy poll conducted a month before this most recent poll shows Edwards is maintaining traction with voters and charts a loss of momentum for Vitter. The earlier poll conducted May 20 had Vitter and Edwards tied at 29 percent support while Angelle had risen to 17 percent and Dardenne followed at 12. Angelle fell in favor with voters by three points from May to June while Dardenne remained stuck at 12 percent. The five-point drop by Vitter from May to June was the most precipitous among the candidates. Also, the number of undecided voters rose from 13 percent in May to 20 percent in June.
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The election is October 24, 2015, with a runoff election on November 21, 2015,
if no candidate receives 50 percent + 1 of the vote.
This is LA and they use the Jungle Primary system where all candidates regardless
of party are listed on same ballot. If no winner in October the runoff
between the top two voter getters is then held.
I believe I read Vitter had voted to fund Planned Parenthood.” That could sink him. Maybe conservatives should vote for Angelle, who isn’t very conservative either.
Sen. David Vitter
State Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle,
Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne
State Rep. John Bel Edwards
Well Edwin was on the ballot last year but lost.
In 2014, Edwards ran in the 2014 election to represent Louisiana’s 6th congressional district
in the United States House of Representatives. He placed first in the jungle primary, but lost
by nearly 25 points in the runoff election.
Somehow I doubt that JOHN EDWARDS will get too far in LA.
Well, that’s convenient for Vitter or any senator who wants to run for governor of Louisiana. So, Louisiana will elect its next governor November of 2015, and then Vitter’s senate seat is up November 2016.
And if Vitter doesn’t win the governor’s race, he can still run for reelection as US Senator. That’s good, even though Rubio’s fooling around in the presidential primaries could cost Republicans a Senate seat in Florida.
What is the relation to Edwin?
None, though John Bel’s father was a crony of EWE’s.
I’m not worried about FL, and I’m glad to see Roofio is leaving the seat after lying his ass off to his supporters. Hopefully DeSantis will get the nomination and the win (especially if the Dems nominate Grayson — the FL GOP could put up Katherine Harris again and she’d win against that psychopath).
Florida Republicans can’t get Bill Nelson out of his seat. It’s a purple state and Rubio’s appeal to the Cuban-American community and some other Latinos might have been his margin of victory. We’ll see what happens. I hope the Republicans have a strong candidate.
Some people including the moron who wrote the article. LOL.
He’s one of McConnell’s bithces.
Nelson will go in Jan 2019 (assuming his health doesn’t fail him in the interim). He’s lucked out by having subpar opponents (20-year House incumbent Bill McCollum in ‘00, a massively unpopular Katherine Harris in ‘06 and the open-borders RINO Connie Mack, IV in ‘12). He’ll be almost 80 and will have a number of GOP contenders to run him out (although the weakest is the one who wants to run the most, Gov. Rick Scott), with AG Commissioner Adam Putnam will probably be the strongest contender.
I sense you are correct about Adam Putnam; he pretty much is a powerhouse here in Florida. I do think though his goal is more Govenor than Senate. That could all change of course depending upon depth of opposition and the scope of opportunity. As far as Louisiana, most Edwin Edwards voters have fallen to attrition and this Jon Edwards will find little value there. Voters in LA are sufficiently alarmed regarding the way forward due to Federal interference in tneir comfortable way of life and the parishes normally democratic reliable (north of the Red River) will glean little success. I sense the conservative groundswell generated by the morass coming out of DC should IMHO carry the day. One may note this was the tide facing Mary Landrieu in the General election and this coming election will exponentionally increase those numbers. Fear is a great motivator.
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