[JohnnyZ]

It looks like he was able to get--surprise surprise--about 1 out of 10.

Instead of 95-5, it was 90-10. And that's on roughly 25% of the electorate. If the electorate was 400 people, he gained 5 and Blanco lost 5. That closes a 2.5% gap. How is picking up 2.5% not huge? It's simple arithmetic.

Of course, you have to be within 2.5 points in the first place for it to mean victory, but why dismiss the successful part of the campaign strategy because other parts of a campaign were less successful?

[Huck]

All he did was get the maximum allowable black votes for a GOPer: 10% (a little less actually.) Yawn.

[bigeasy_70118]

Jindal lost b/c the poor whites in North Louisiana and some in So. Louisiana (Tangipahoa and Washington Parishes)wouldn't vote for him. Had they supported him in the same manner they supported Suzie Terrel for senate last year, he would be the governor.

You can assign any number of reasons for this (healthcare, Dem identification, etc) but these are the same people who came out in droves for David Duke in 1991, thus my conclusion is that Jindal lost b/c of racism.