Posted on 11/02/2014 1:22:24 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Politics in Louisiana is a uniquely business. Don’t believe me? Then take a look at what’s about to go down there on Tuesday.
You might not think a noontime political rally with two or three-dozen listeners in Lafayette, Louisiana -- a town 135 miles west of New Orleans -- is a logical place to look for one of the potentially crucial elements of the mid-term elections. And in just about any other state, you’d be right.
But this is Louisiana. And Louisiana is....different. It’s not just its accents, its terrain, its laws (shaped by the Napoleonic Code, not British common law), its heart-stopping food. It’s not even the state’s expansive understanding of what makes a credible candidate.
A few miles east of Lafayette, you can find 87-year-old former Governor Edwin Edwards campaigning for a Congressional seat, accompanied by his 37-year-old wife. The last federal position he held was Inmate--he served more than eight years for his inventive approach to acquiring money. Yet a poll last year found that Louisiana’s voters would prefer Edwards as their governor to the current chief executive, the unloved possible Republican presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal.
A few miles north, and you’re in the Fifth Congressional District, where the leading fund-raiser among Congressional candidates is Zach Dasher, nephew of Phil Robertson, patriarch of the “Duck Dynasty” family that dominates cable TV ratings.
But the Louisiana Difference on display this warm, sunny October day can be found in the brief appearance of Rob Maness, a 52-year-old retired Air Force officer, and a candidate for United States Senator. (“A Conservative. A Vet. One Of US,” his campaign posters proclaim.) If the polls are right, he’ll get a bit less than ten per cent of the vote on November 4th.
But in Louisiana, November 4 is not Election Day; it’s...
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Real?
Real. I thought about “fixing” that error, but I passed, figuring that I wasn’t really sure what the author was trying to say.
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