[bayourant]

True. However Lakeview residents strike me to be the type to absentee vote in big numbers though. I wonder if MItch by this move is thinking long term esp if something happens to Congressman Jefferson, Of course that seat might be gone for all practical purposes after the next census.

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

Jefferson's seat will be diluted by the GOP areas in Jefferson Parrish in 2010. However, Uptown is still largely Democratic and will toss Nagin Overboard to vote for Landrieu