LA U.S. House Election Results: In major upsets, Republicans win both Districts 2 & 4
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SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - Minden Physician and Businessman John Fleming got just 356 votes more than Caddo District Attorney Paul Carmouche during Saturday night's election to determine who will be the next representative for Louisiana's 4th Congressional District. However, after all 640 precincts were counted, Carmouche said he planned to ask for a recount of the ballots.
In complete but unofficial results, Fleming received 44,497 votes (48.07%) and Carmouche received 41,141 vote (47.69%). Independent Candidate Chester T. Kelley got 3,245 votes (3.51%) and Independent Candidate Gerard Bowen, Jr. got 675 votes (.73%). These are complete but unofficial results from the Louisiana Secretary of State's office.
In all, there were 92,558 early and machine votes cast in the election. Provisional ballots had not been counted and are not a part of the total. Carmouche cited the uncounted provisional ballots as one reason he would not concede the race once the results had been announced. "For me to concede at this point would be foolish. We've spent a lot of money, a lot of effort, a lot of time in this race, and there are provisional ballots that we don't believe have been counted yet because they don't usually count those (immediately after a race). Democrats usually win those by large margins so the fat lady hasn't sung yet in this thing," he said.
Jacques Berry, a spokesman for the Secretary of State's Office, said the complete but unofficial returns do not include provisional ballots - paper ballots filled out by people who arrived at their precincts, intending to vote, but whose names did not appear on the official registry. Those votes and absentee paper ballots would be included on Tuesday, when all vote totals are added together again and certified.
Louisiana law has no provision for an automatic recount, Berry said, though a losing candidate can request one. However Fleming sounded confident about his win after learning of Carmouche's intent to ask for a recount. "The way this election works is that the person with the most votes wins and the people have spoken," he said. Afterward he talked about his plan to focus on the economy when he gets to Washington. He says his background in both medicine and business gives him a unique perspective as a congressman. "(We should) not allow the Bush tax cuts to expire. They need to stay in place. We also need to look into cutting taxes further to stimulate business," he said.
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Fleming won, but it was a weaker showing than expected, considering McCrery always won by huge margins, and Jindal endorsed him. He’s lucky the runoff wasn’t the same day as the presidential election, when black turnout would have been a lot higher.
I, as everyone else did, expected Jefferson to win overwhemingly no matter how blatant his corruption is, just as Gary Studds was caught butt raping 17 year olds and won by even HIGHER margins. If you had told me yesterday that Cao would get over 20%, I would have laughed in your face and bet you $100 there's no way.
In many ways this is a reverse of my panic on election night, where I felt sick to my stomach seeing a radical Chicago machine candidate with zero credentials winning over states like Virginia and Indiana that hadn't gone RAT since LBJ's 1964 landslide.
I agree this appears to be a fluke in much the same way Dan Rostencowski was ousted in 1994 by one-term Michael Patrick Flannigan due to Rosty's being on trial for corruption (becoming the first, and thus far only, Republican elected to represent a majority city of Chicago district since the early 60s) -- but bear in mind THAT was during the GOP high water of 1994. THIS victory came in the aftermath of the Obamanation. THIS really did make history, far more than a guy with half-black ancestry winning the Presidency did. Let us get behind Cao immediately and make sure he doesn't end up like Flannigan, because the Dems will do everything they can to take back this seat in 2010, and the demographics are overwhemingly in their favor. I am very proud that our nation's first Vietnamese-american Congressman is a Republican. If we can showcase Cao to the world, he and Bobby Jindal can lead us back to victory and become the NEW face of the Republican Party, especially everytime the media tries to portray all those mean nasty GOP voters in the deep south as evil bigots and racists.
The local papers have been rubbing it our face with nonstop "commerative" issues of Dear Leader since Nov. 5, 2008. The Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times greeting me the next morning with a smiling photo of The One and the caption "Mr. President", which made me lose my lunch. Now, it's time to shove this in the face of the mainstream media NONSTOP:
I hadn’t seen that chart before. Thanks for posting it. I have to give Karl Rove credit since he pretty much nailed the election results much more than the usual pollsters.
His name is not Ahn anything! It is ANH- Joseph ANH Cao.
Thank God.
This gives all of us Vietnam Veterans a good feeling to see a Vietnamese succeed in the political arena. Way to go “Joe”.
Please note that pandering isn't necessary to win elections.
Congratulations to Mr. Cao. What an achievement! Woohoo!!!!
>>>picking up embattled Rep. Bill Jefferson’s (D-LA 02) seat in New Orleans,<<<
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Gee, that certainly has not been a big news headline or “talking point”, has it!!!
Not relevant, but Mrs. Cao is very beautiful.
I think Jefferson is really in trouble after Jan 6, 2009, when he will no longer be a MoC.
One less member of the CBC.
Every talk show today would have commented on this win if the first American-from-Vietnam candidate had been a Democrat defeating a corrupt Republican congressman.
Since the parties are reversed - media silence.
His name is actually pronounced “gow” (rhymes with cow)
only reason why cao won was because of the election day rescheduled due to gustav, and because that nut malik rahim bled votes away from dollar bill to the green party.
if those factors had not been in place, jefferson would have kept his office.
believe me, La.’s 2nd congressional district has a long way to go in its fight against racial identity politics and ignorance.