Republicans Outflanked Themselves in Louisiana

CapitolHillBlue.com ^ | 12/9/02 | LEE HOCKSTADER & ADAM NOSSITER

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Am I missing the part of this article that says that W J Clinton did not show up in Leeezyanna so this HELPED the democrats!

[Zeroisanumber]

Anyone have any info on that flyer? That seems a bit low even for a close campaign.

[geaux]

Read this.

[What Is Ain't]

"It just got out of control," said Silas Lee, a sociologist at Xavier University in New Orleans. "African American voters wanted a more positive message."

You mean like the NAACP sponsored ad depicting Dubya dragging a black man to his death behind a pick-up truck?

[Fish out of Water]

ping

[RonF]

Go ahead, keep worrying about a guy who's been out of office for two years. That lack of focus on the present will only help Democrats.

[joltinjoe]

Yes, a very impressive victory for an incumbent in a state that has a 3-1 dimocrat registration edge, and has not elected a republican senator in over 100 years. Impressive indeed.

[Ancesthntr]

Landrieu, who just a week ago seemed to fit the GOP blueprint's definition of a vulnerable incumbent, held off the challenge and won a convincing victory,...

Yeah, 51.5% to 48.5% is real convincing. BFD. Little Tommy Dasshole is still going to be the Minority Leader.

[puroresu]

They also conveniently failed to mention that Landrieu pledged to oppose taxpayer funded abortions, and to support legislation to protect human life starting at conception, on a Catholic Church questionnaire. Now that she's safely re-elected, we're supposed to forget that so she can vote pro-abortion.

Of course, she was lying in her claims of a secret sugar deal. If that's what turned the election around, then it shows how sleazy Demo-rat campaigns really are.

[Timesink]

We didn't outflank ourselves. The RATS brought in Donna Brazile, (who had the added benefit of being from Louisiana) and she performed a picture-perfect knock-and-drag on election day. It even included direct over-the-phone threats from Bill Clinton to hesitant black "leaders" a couple of days beforehand to "get out the vote or else. The GOP, on the other hand, completely disbanded their brilliant GOTV campaign after November 5th and just threw money at Terrell.

[ThinkDifferent]

Anyone have any info on that flyer? That seems a bit low even for a close campaign.

It's the first I've heard of it, and IMO it's much more likely to have been created by Democrats than Republicans.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

It is not I that worries about Clinton it should be the demokrats. Any lack of focus statement on the 'present' time is riduculous as it is still the Clinton's ( Senator Clinton) through McCauliffe that are still in the present and running the show. So I will point out; that is why they lost the majority. Their La. win means nothing but they corrupted and cheated. They are and were desparate.

[genefromjersey]

I thought it was a pretty good thing: The country is about evenly divided ( Pro/Anti Bush ), and the balance in the Senate reflects the national mood more accurately than a "flash-in-the-pan" Republican landslide would have done.

The Administration, instead of having a free pass , now has its work cut out for it - and that benefits the people as a whole.

[hchutch]

The thing is, he did get the black vote out - and if the Dems figure out a way for Clinton to get out the black vote in a low-key fashion, we're going to have serious trouble in elections, particularly in places where we should win.

We don't have much margin for error here, and Lott made a BIG mistake which WILL show up in 2004 election ads. Count on it.

[Revolting cat!]

We could avoid all this hair pulling, all these deep, deep analyses by digging out the one number between 1 and 100m that for some reason no one seems to want to see: the percentage of elections in US (or US Congress elections, if you want to narrow it down,) where challengers beat the incumbents. What is it? 10%, 23%? The Incumbent Party won, just as it had won a month ago, just like ti wins in most every dog catcher race! Fool me once, etc...

The otherwise statistics happy media somehow don't show us these numbers so as not to foster cynicism in the world's greatest political system, is my take on this...

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Will Landrieu help La. sugar farmers in any way?

[Digger]

I heard some posts here critical of having ole Maxine Waters while the other side had Bush. Now today RUSHBO is spinning the likes like nobody can. Having Landrieu win was apparantly insignificant with him. Not only is the gov a joke the people talking it are as bad.

[Darlin']

""It just got out of control," said Silas Lee, a sociologist at Xavier University in New Orleans. "African American voters wanted a more positive message."

Really ? I wonder how he'd explain the signs in some predominately black, New Orleans neighborhoods that read: Mary, if you don't respect us, don't expect us.

[Douglas]

Yes, Lott's comments will be used to galvanize black voters in 2004. They stayed home in November in states like Missouri and Georgia and the Republicans won squeakers. The black vote turned out in Lousisiana and the Dems won.

This could be a pre-cursor of 2004. Its why Lott needs to step down. This is just his latest blunder. He should have stepped down before this.

If Lott remains as speaker I see it hurting the conservative cause and the Republicans chances in 2004.