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He carried two metropolitan parishes in N. LA - Bossier and Ouachita, but lost an almost 4-1 margin in the rural parishes of N LA north of Alexandria meridian. In the "poverty zone" of the north delta area, he garnered, at most, 35%. In those parishes, where transfer payments are 80% of the income, he did poorly among whites as well as blacks.

This area is a strong supporter of Bill Jones and Ewing. Traditional democratic areas who vote republican in national elections but send dems to the house and senate on state elections.

Blanco's campaign played "you're gonna lose your insurance" ads on every commercial break Thursday and Friday prior to the election on both cable and broadcast stations.

The republicans did not respond with a counter, instead running the same ads run in October and ads showing how the negative campaign of Blanco was "old machine politics".

I stand by my conclusions.