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Louisiana Gov. Race: Syrian Refugee Debate Erodes Dem's Lead to 4 Points
Breitbart ^ | 20 Nov. 2015 | John Nolte

Posted on 11/20/2015 11:02:43 AM PST by JSDude1

According to the newest state-wide poll of Louisiana taken Thursday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) 71% has inched to within just 4 points of his Democrat opponent, John Bel Edwards. Earlier in the month, Edwards had been handily beating Vitter by as much as +22 points. Proving once again why early voting is an appallingly dumb idea, while the Syrian refugee debate appears to be helping Vitter gain ground (he leads on this issue 40% to 36%), according to the Huffington Post, more than a quarter of a million votes have already been cast in Louisiana. Like almost every Republican governor, including Bobby Jindal, the man he would be replacing, Vitter has come out against allowing poorly vetted (per Obama’s own F.B.I. director) Syrian refugees into Louisiana. Edwards disagrees. The refugee debate that has galvanized the country this week appears to be the only thing that could have shaken up the race.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; edwards; governor; terrorism; vitter
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To: NKP_Vet

Nice tag-line. Jefferson iseems to be dressing up St. Augustine’s “In essentials unity, in non-essentials,diversity, in all things Charity” in American homespun.


21 posted on 11/20/2015 10:14:36 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: Hieronymus

Anyone care to comment or, let us out-of-state folks know how the voter turnout is going in Louisiana, today!!! Thanks......your input will b most appreciated!!!


22 posted on 11/21/2015 6:29:15 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party!!!)
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To: JSDude1
. : A Female Physician in Munich, Germany sends a message to the world . . . . . .

Yesterday, at the hospital we had a meeting about how the situation here and at the other Munich hospitals is unsustainable. Clinics cannot handle emergencies, so they are starting to send everything to the hospitals.

Many Muslims are refusing treatment by female staff and, we, women, are refusing to go among those animals, especially from Africa. Relations between the staff and migrants are going from bad to worse. Since last weekend, migrants going to the hospitals must be accompanied by police with K-9 units.

Many migrants have AIDS, syphilis, open TB and many exotic diseases that we, in Europe, do not know how to treat them. If they receive a prescription in the pharmacy, they learn they have to pay cash. This leads to unbelievable outbursts, especially when it is about drugs for the children. They abandon the children with pharmacy staff with the words: “So, cure them here yourselves!” So the police are not just guarding the clinics and hospitals, but also large pharmacies.

Truly we said openly: Where are all those who had welcomed in front of TV cameras, with signs at train stations?! Yes, for now, the border has been closed, but a million of them are already here and we will definitely not be able to get rid of them.

Until now, the number of unemployed in Germany was 2.2 million. Now it will be at least 3.5 million. Most of these people are completely unemployable. A bare minimum of them have any education. What is more, their women usually do not work at all. I estimate that one in ten is pregnant. Hundreds of thousands of them have brought along infants and little kids under six, many emaciated and neglected. If this continues and German re-opens its borders, I’m going home to the Czech Republic. Nobody can keep me here in this situation, not even double the salary than at home. I went to Germany, not to Africa or the Middle East.

Even the professor who heads our department told us how sad it makes him to see the cleaning woman, who for 800 Euros cleans every day for years, and then meets young men in the hallways who just wait with their hand outstretched, want everything for free, and when they don’t get it they throw a fit.

I really don’t need this! But I’m afraid that if I return, that at some point it will be the same in the Czech Republic. If the Germans, with their nature cannot handle this, there in Czechia it would be total chaos. Nobody who has not come in contact with them has no idea what kind of animals they are, especially the ones from Africa, and how Muslims act superior to our staff, regarding their religious accommodation.

For now, the local hospital staff has not come down with the diseases they brought here, but, with so many hundreds of patients every day – this is just a question of time.

In a hospital near the Rhine, migrants attacked the staff with knives after they had handed over an 8-month-old on the brink of death, which they had dragged across half of Europe for three months. The child died in two days, despite having received top care at one of the best pediatric clinics in Germany. The physician had to undergo surgery and two nurses are laid up in the ICU. Nobody has been punished.

The local press is forbidden to write about it, so we know about it through email. What would have happened to a German if he had stabbed a doctor and nurses with a knife? Or if he had flung his own syphilis-infected urine into a nurse’s face and so threatened her with infection? At a minimum he’d go straight to jail and later to court. With these people – so far, nothing has happened.

And so I ask, where are all those greeters and receivers from the train stations? Sitting pretty at home, enjoying their non-profits and looking forward to more trains and their next batch of cash from acting like greeters at the stations. If it were up to me I would round up all these greeters and bring them here first to our hospital’s emergency ward, as attendants. Then, into one building with the migrants so they can look after them there themselves, without armed police, without police dogs who today are in every hospital here in Bavaria, and without medical help.

Is this "situation" coming to America?

23 posted on 11/21/2015 6:36:13 AM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; yongin; Impy; AuH2ORepublican; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; ..

I don’t like David Vitter, but I hope he wins. I’m shocked that Edwards would take that stance, especially during an election year. That comment could be the day Vitter won the election.


24 posted on 11/21/2015 2:23:21 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gaits)
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To: Clintonfatigued; Impy; fieldmarshaldj

bel edwards leads by twenty in the early vote. ace of spades calls it for bel edwards.


25 posted on 11/21/2015 6:30:15 PM PST by yongin (jesus is lord. not allah!)
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Jeff Landry leading as well, by 7 points. 14 for Edwards. 13 for Billy N (R) with 234 of 3945 reporting.

http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11212015/11212015_Statewide.html


26 posted on 11/21/2015 6:36:12 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy

billy n leads by ten in early vote. also vitter underperforming in jefferson parish.


27 posted on 11/21/2015 6:39:58 PM PST by yongin (jesus is lord. not allah!)
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To: yongin

Race called for Bel Edwards.

Vitter was a horribly flawed candidate..not to mention a horribly flawed person.


28 posted on 11/21/2015 7:22:10 PM PST by conservaKate (w)
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To: conservaKate

bill nungesser and jeff landry won big. that tells us all we need to know about vitter.


29 posted on 11/21/2015 7:25:16 PM PST by yongin (jesus is lord. not allah!)
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To: yongin
Exactly. There are lessons to be learned from this race.

1. Louisiana is not going democrat. This was all about Vitter. The blowout Republican wins downballot are telling.

2. Louisiana rejected the perceived establishment candidate.

30 posted on 11/21/2015 7:33:49 PM PST by TontoKowalski (Satisfied Customer #291)
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