[jpl]

Republicans haven't done too well statewide in Louisiana outside the Presidential race recently....

Louisiana is one of those states where the Dems still have some solid support on the local level, no doubt about it. But Bush will once again win the state easily, and any Democrat who runs has to be at least perceived as something of a centrist to have any realistic chance.

[Flux Capacitor]

----Bush will once again win the state easily----

I believe he'll win the state, but it won't be nearly as easy as it ought to be. Clinton won La. twice, and next year Dean will have a Dem governor and two Dem senators cheerleading for him, and warning Louisianans that Bush will (once again) destroy the sugar industry. A much-too-large percentage of us will wolf the propaganda up.

-Dan