Posted on 11/16/2019 1:53:20 PM PST by entropy12
Politics are strange in Louisiana.
The Cajuns in South Louisiana are some of the most conservative Catholics in the nation and they vote slightly more Democrat (in state elections) than Republican.
I am starting to be very worried about voting results 2 VERY RED states with Trump visiting OFTEN and they vote for Dem governors I SMELL A RAT!!! Or the demographics in this country HAS BEEN changed enough with these dammed open borders to where we are in deep doggie doo doo!!!
Why go out and vote only for one race and one candidate? I can understand the crossover. I cannot accept two dumps of votes to flip the race twice that only went to the governor and no down ticket. I don’t see a non-nefarious explanation for that.
Again, South Louisiana is strange.
They vote for the most Cajun guy in state races and will vote for the most Republican guy in presidential elections.
They want to drain the swamp, but not their swamp.
My guess is that in New Orleans the churches and the community organizers told their folks to go vote for Bel Edwards, and that’s all they did.
Never look at Louisiana with a rational political prism.
Voter fraud is next to impossible in the banana republic of Honduras. Government issued Photo ID required to vote and paper ballot backups!
I have been tracking against Dave Wasserman’s projection chart and recognized early on (when parishes starting passing 50%) that Edwards was going to win.
I compared on a spreadsheet the actual results with Wasserman’s projection and the following are the actual vs projected results. (Note that Wasserman’s projection had an even split with Edwards ahead by 5 votes.)
Total Actual votes were 5.2K higher
Of the 64 parishes (many are relatively small):
1. 18 had higher turnout adding 45.5 additional votes accounting for 29.2K additional votes for Edwards.
2. 51 had higher than projected additional votes for Edwards
3. 44 had higher than projected percentage of the votes for Edwards.
4. 4 parishes projected for Rispone to win (2 just barely) were won by Edwards.
In summation, Edwards areas had higher turnout and he overperformed in most parishes relative to projected.
While I think voter fraud is a serious problem that has not yet been addressed, the consistency of results does not indicate voter fraud in this case.
We lost some in Pennsylvania, Indiana including Vice President pence’s hometown and more.
and we won some in the very blue State of NJ.
thanx for the memory
The population of New Orleans is 37% Catholic and Orleans Parish voted 89% for Edwards.
Therefore, there are Catholics in Louisiana who vote Democrat.
Oh, I wasn’t denying that, but what type of Catholic still has to be indicated.
That’s nice.
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