David Vitter Confident, But Not Letting Up with Lead

Shreveport Times | 10-21-04 | Hasten, Mike

[Theodore R.]

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041021/ELECTION01/410210337

[Theodore R.]

We cannot post articles from The Shreveport Times but can provide a link. Read this interesting article on the Vitter family. Vitter now SEEMS to have a better chance to win in LA than Dr. Tom Coburn does in OK, but could that really be?

[Theodore R.]

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041021/ELECTION01/410210337

[Skooz]

For the first time in a long time, I actually have hope we can elect a Republican Senator in Louisiana.

[sinkspur]

My in-laws are in Lake Charles, and I promised them a dinner and booze when we go down for Christmas if they all go out and vote for Bush and Vitter.

These Cajuns raise a lot of hell about politicians, but they don't vote.

They say they will; they'll have to provide proof.

I hope you get Vitter in the Senate, and the guy who lost to Blanco in the House.

[Dog Gone]

He is certain to win this election, but that's not the end of the story unless he wins with at least 50% in a crowded field. Republicans have often won in November, only to lose in the later runoff when fewer people vote.

[nana4bush]

He certainly has an impressive bio and education background. Harvard economics/history major; Rhodes scholar... But I'm worried about the Landrieu machine factor in a runoff. It always happens.

[tenthirteen]

Having worked in Louisiana for a Republican Member of Congress, I must report that the peculiar 50% threshold in a statewide Senate race is as difficult as catching a greased pig. In 1986, we had Henson MOORE (R) ready to win there, but John BREAUX just eked out a victory. It seems the Democrats rolled their sound trucks into the projects in New Orleans on election day, and just blared out that if the Republican won the Senate seat, their checks would not arrive next month.

Add to that the "walking around money" handed out by the Poverty Pimps (so-called Preachers) and the race was stolen from MOORE.

VITTER being from Metairie close to New Orleans may help, but Shreveport and Bossier City, or anywhere north of the Red River, can hurt him.

I pray that he wins.

[Theodore R.]

Shreveport was in some ways the birthplace of the revised Republican Party of the early 1960s. Now it is majority black and reliably Democrat.

[tenthirteen]

My recollection is that those Parishes close to the Arkansas border trend mostly democrat, the true-blue designation of yellow dog.

[Theodore R.]

Actually, it the smaller-populated parishes along the MS River that are as reliably Democrat for the most part as machine-dominated Orleans Parish.