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I’m starting to seriously dislike these jungle primaries.

Only just starting? ;) I can't tell you how much I effing hate them!

The leg abolished them for federal races, only to reinstate them after 1 election (2008), why why?

The leg abolished them for federal races, only to reinstate them after 1 election (2008), why why?

Supposedly to save money. We had closed primary and a closed primary runoff if no one got above 50% before the general, so I'm guessing they thought it would save cash by whacking one of the contests. Frankly it was stupid. Getting rid of general election runoffs helped Cassidy take out Cazayoux for LA-06. Plus we would have chosen a single Republican by now to take on Landrieu and not have the specter of a runoff that she could conceivably get a second chance to bounce back in.

I wouldn’t call Holloway an equivalent of Nolan, since unlike Nolan, he was a perennial office-seeker (though despite having been out of Congress since LA lost its 8th seat in 1993, he has held office as a Public Service Commissioner since 2009).

Impressively, Holloway won a seat that was more Democrat than the state as a whole (53% for Dukakis in 1988 and narrowly missed going for Mondale in 1984) and held it with little trouble until redistricting abolished his seat. That's quite a feat as we didn't even have shots in many southern seats that Reagan and Bush 41 won by double digits.