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Dems Win LA, GOP Sees An Opening
Real Clear Politics ^ | May 4th, 2008 | Reid Wilson

Posted on 05/04/2008 11:16:54 AM PDT by The_Republican

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1 posted on 05/04/2008 11:16:54 AM PDT by The_Republican
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To: The_Republican
>More importantly, Cazayoux’s win offers further evidence that Republicans may face another Congressional landscape as difficult as the 2006 election, when the GOP lost thirty seats and the majority...

Better stop whistling past the graveyard now, and start supporting your local conservatives now.

Unlike many here who do not see bad things a coming in November, I see the very real possibility of a Congressional blowout, and this particular election is not a good sign at all.

2 posted on 05/04/2008 11:24:24 AM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: The_Republican

The Dems compromised ‘quality’ for quantity once a again. Have a look at the newbie’s website and check out his positions on guns, immigration and abortion: http://www.doncazayoux.org/dc_issues.html


3 posted on 05/04/2008 11:44:39 AM PDT by No Dems 2004 (No Dems in 2008 either)
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To: bill1952

How many times has Woody Jenkins tried and failed to win office? Maybe it is time for someone to take him aside and explain that he can contribute better behind the scenes.


4 posted on 05/04/2008 11:49:14 AM PDT by Gorest Gump
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To: bill1952

You are correct in you analysis.

McCain might win the presidential election if Dems do implode at their convention, but there is enough anecdotal evidence around to suggest the Dems will achieve super majorities in Congress even if that happens.

Gas prices, inflation, job insecurites, Iraq, failure to lead on all but the war on terror puts the GOP in grave jepordy. Voters do want change, even if that change is socialistic or at best void of actual policies.

Oppurtunity lost for the GOP since 2007.


5 posted on 05/04/2008 11:58:07 AM PDT by buckalfa
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To: bill1952

You can pin this loss on a VERY WEAK GOP candidate. If Woody Jenkins is the best the Louisiana GOP can do in this district, then they got bigger problems than winning races.


6 posted on 05/04/2008 12:04:40 PM PDT by jayef
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To: No Dems 2004
The Dems compromised ‘quality’ for quantity once a again. Have a look at the newbie’s website and check out his positions on guns, immigration and abortion: http://www.doncazayoux.org/dc_issues.html

Hopefully, he'll have a voting record by November that makes him look like a Nanacy boy.

7 posted on 05/04/2008 12:08:12 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: bill1952

I don’t disagree with your prediction of a coming Congressional landslide, but....

I was in Baton Rouge on business a few weeks ago. I saw and heard the ads these guys were running. I left town knowing that Cazayoux was going to win. He is young, attractive, has a lovely family, is funny, and “cajun”...

Woody Jenkins has been around since I lived in La (8 years ago)... is older, strident, pompous, and... lately, a bit hypocritical.

If we want to win, we need good candidates...


8 posted on 05/04/2008 12:11:28 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: The_Republican
Republican newspaper publisher!!!! Hmmm, pretty sure that gene doesn't exist in the gene pool!
9 posted on 05/04/2008 12:20:56 PM PDT by CRBDeuce (an armed society is a polite society)
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Will Rep Don Cazayoux be campaigning alongside Obama this fall?
10 posted on 05/04/2008 1:10:14 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (McCain '08 : The lesser of two evils!)
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To: bill1952
It'll get worse before it gets better. And the GOP has done nothing to turn things around since it lost the House in 2006.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

11 posted on 05/04/2008 1:27:32 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: bill1952

I think we’ll be able to pay our respects inside the graveyard if we don’t get a new nominee for President.


12 posted on 05/04/2008 1:29:49 PM PDT by nygoose
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To: The_Republican

I am not a fan of the method of campaigning where you put up pictures of your opponent with other people you don’t like and say “lookie, we’ve put him next to Obama in a picture, you can’t vote for him now!!!

What happened to “Vote for me because I will do the job competently, and my opponent will make our lives worse.”


13 posted on 05/04/2008 1:50:14 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: bill1952

Like they say, a fish rots from the head down. I agree that the Republicans are in for a rough ride this fall. That is bound to happen when we run a horrible candidate like the maverick John McCain. Voter turnout on our side will be dismal.


14 posted on 05/04/2008 1:54:17 PM PDT by upsdriver (My kingdom for an acceptable presidential candidate!!)
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To: bill1952

Perhaps you are right in your concerns about the near future, but as a local to this race I can assure you that many who voted for this particular republican did so while holding their nose.


15 posted on 05/04/2008 1:55:04 PM PDT by HChampagne (I am not an AARP member and never will be.)
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To: The_Republican
The National Republican Congressional Committee spent nearly $440,000 on the race, according to Federal Election Commission reports filed yesterday, while the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee expended nearly $1.2 million by the end of the contest.

The GOP screwed over social conservatives and we retaliated by stopping contributions. Do you suppose they know why donations are down so much? The RAT out spent him. Probably using Soros' money.

16 posted on 05/04/2008 1:55:57 PM PDT by NRA2BFree ("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
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Wonderful. More idiot "conservatives" taken in once again by a Democrat who "ran to the right." One would think that after seeing how far left the Congress has gone with all these "ran to the right" Democrats and "conservatives" in these allegedly conservative districts would think twice before voting Democrat.

A vote for a Democrat, no matter how far to the right he or she pretends to be, will always be a vote that empowers the far left. Always.

17 posted on 05/04/2008 2:00:10 PM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: bill1952
You may disagree, but I blame a great deal on these jackasses that blast folks like Romney, who aren't "pure conservatives", whatever that means... A true conservative can't win nationally, can't win state-wide (with few exceptions), and now, even congressional districts are becoming out of reach...

They disgust me almost as much as the liberals...

18 posted on 05/04/2008 2:00:30 PM PDT by NYC Republican (John McCain- Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory...)
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To: bill1952

Baton Rouge has been inundated with former New Orleanians, who are now permanent residents of Red Stick.


19 posted on 05/04/2008 2:03:56 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: bill1952

“Better stop whistling past the graveyard now, and start supporting your local conservatives now.”

DITTOS ON THIS.

Let’s win this seat back in November.


20 posted on 05/04/2008 4:26:11 PM PDT by WOSG (Gameplan: Obama beats Hillary, McCain beats Obama, conservatives beat RINOs)
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