Posted on 12/02/2008 8:31:21 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
BATON ROUGE, La. -- President-elect Barack Obama and Gov. Bobby Jindal entered opposing sides of a bitter Louisiana congressional race, appearing in advertisements in support of their parties' contenders while the candidates readied for their only debate on Tuesday night.
The president-elect lent his voice to a radio ad praising a fellow Democrat, saying "To change America, and to get Louisiana's economy back on track, I need leaders like Paul Carmouche working with me in Washington." The governor appeared in a television ad in support of fellow Republican John Fleming.
The ads first aired on Monday, the day before Jindal and other governors met with the incoming president in Philadelphia.
Obama and Jindal entered the fray of a nasty political battle, as both national parties fight to end the year with a victory on Saturday in one of only two congressional races in the country that have yet to go to the voters. Combined, Republicans and Democrats have spent close to $1 million on the 4th Congressional District race, much of it on negative ads in the campaign's final days.
Obama lost by a wide margin in the 4th District. During their debate Tuesday night, Fleming sought several times to connect Obama to Carmouche _ once referring to the incoming president's "tax and spend policies." Fleming also sought to tie Carmouche to left-leaning congressional Democrats such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, both D-Calif.
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Sarah Palin needs to take a trip to Shreveport.
Sorry, I’m LA-01.
Fred Thompson too.
My thoughts as well.
Maybe I can email her staff and tell her my district is in a runoff.... It could work....
Fleming (R) will win by 12 percentage points or more.
I hope you’re right. I’ve seen polls that have it neck and neck, and a Democrat poll had Carmouche in the lead.
We’ll see.
Carmouche doesn’t have B. Hussein Obama’s coattails this time. The Welfare Queens, pimps and crack HOs won’t get out of bed in time to vote this go ‘round. That’s why Saxby Chambliss won in Georgia today by 18 percentage points.
I’m in LA-06, but I sent Dr. Fleming a little money. They were having envelope-stuffing parties around here, but they were always during the day when I was at work.
Sarah’s presence saved Saxby’s ass.
She could help there to.
60% for Sax; 40% for the dem. in Georgia.
Its a no-brainer.
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Something other conservatives should've been doing since 2006. With a Congress in single digits, it was utter stupidity for this association to be ignored...wake up Republicans.
The GA results bode well.
But we have yet to win a competitive December election in the state of Louisiana. The rat is from the population center of the district.
Criminal Rep. Bill Jefferson will be reelected in the other race.
If we hold the Shreveport seat (and the Ohio seat is not stolen) the number will be 178.
I hope leaders like Palin pay as much attention to this as the Senate race.
I wonder if Jindal didn’t want her coming into LA to campaign for a candidate there? She certainly would be a help, but likely would tarnish Jindal at bit at the same time.
Hmm? Because they’re possible ‘12 rivals? I hope Jindal isn’t so petty. She can gin up the turnout like no other on our side.
I’m glad to see him stumping in this race himself. He’s failure to do so in 2007 state house runoff elections just after he won cost the GOP an outright majority in the chamber.
I saw a poll that showed Carmouche (the Dem) with a 10 pt lead on Fleming (the Rep). This district went for McCain by about 66%. The GOP just cannot allow conservative Dems to keep winning R +7 districts. We will never be anywhere near the majority if we are losing in districts like these, and that would include Denny Hastert’s old seat and Roger Wicker’s old seat in Mississippi.
Anyway, hopefully Fleming can drum up enough Republican voters to the polls to win this thing. Carmouche will need a big AA turnout - perhaps that will be depressed with Obama not running.
So far what I’ve seen is a whole lot of anti-Palin pettiness from ‘12 hopefuls.
“conservative Dems”
Fauxcons. Our greatest enemy right now. They hold the seats we need to win to take control. They must be exposed as the Pelosi-loving tools they are.
66% huh? I guess that + number is going up.
Hastert’s seat we lost solely because of a bad candidate. Bill Foster is a liberal in a Republican seat. Although the seat went for Obama of course. So did Don Manzullo’s in Northern Illiois which I think has NEVER gone for a dem President before. They only held it for 2 years in whole of the 20th Century. Obama did dreadfully well here in his “home” state.
Mitt and Huck? Those RINOs don’t count.
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