Louisiana Election Turnout Thread- Here come the results

C-SPAN ^ | Dec. 6, 2002 | Brian Lamme

[ewing]

Tell us how crowded/not crowded it was when you went to vote!

Did you see voter fraud and what is the talk about exit polling and the possible outcome?

[Holden Magroin]

No kidding. Bush should've saved the firings for late Saturday.

Oh well. Republicans don't need another Senate seat. It's not like Bush has the guts to appoint conservatives to the Supreme Court, anyway.

[concerned about politics]

Good point, this is the first House race since Mrs. Pelosi was chosen minority leader. She is not the albatross to Democrats that some of us Republicans have been claiming.

Nah, It was the sugar thing. Most people don't follow politics past their own pocketbook.

[StarFan]

That is not really such a big Dem victory. According to Bill (liberal suck-up) Schneider, it will "prove that Dubya and his big guns do not have the influence they thought they did down South". He said while Terrell has the big guns come down to campaign, little ole Mary was alone to fend for herself, with only the black caucus and Jesse Jackson to pull this out for her, should she win.

Arghh latest figures show Mary widening her lead. I'd better turn on Foxnews not to watch Schneider and company gloat.

[TLBSHOW]

Its not over yet!

[MAKnight]

Landrieu wins this one folks!

[GOPrincess]

The numbers do include absentee ballots per Fox... Fred Barnes says he thinks it's insurmountable for Terrell :(.

[NautiNurse]

FNC has Jefferson numbers--Secy State doesn't--and those numbers put Landrieu up by 17K votes--now it looks bad.

[Theodore R.]

I believe that LA counts absentee ballots at each precinct and reports them as regular votes. They are not counted in a lump mass.

[BullDog108]

I guess you havn't had enough.

[Holden Magroin]

I hope you know that I am the one who coined the phrase, "the sugar thing." I deserve some annotation for that.

[nicmarlo]

I've yet to hear if absentee ballots are in these totals, does anyone know?

I've only heard speculation to such ... there were cheers earlier in Terrell's camp....so someone speculated that possibility, but as far as I recall, nothing posted here yet.

[Mr. Mojo]

Lightweights Floyd Mayweather vs. Jose Luis Castillo fighting now on the undercard, and heavies Wladimir Klitschko vs. Jameel McCline coming up in the main event. Pretty damn good fight card.

[BenR2]

She may be ugly, but there is no need to make anti-semitic remarks.

Huh? Because he simply names her (for us, inconvenient) ethnicity in conjunction with an adjective describing her less-than-pulchritudinous aspect, he is making anti-Semitic remarks?

If I say that Miss Australia is one bodacious looking Lebanese-Australian, am I making a "Pro-Semitic" remark or and an anti-Semitic remark?

Help me. I have a damn hard time keeping up with all the PC dos and don'ts on this thread.

[plain talk]

Yes, regardless of how this turns out, Terrell was nothing compared to Woody Jenkins who should be a senator IMHO. Not sure what happened to him. When I head to Lafayette after Xmas I'll have to ask my family that question.

[concerned about politics]

I've yet to hear if absentee ballots are in these totals, does anyone know?

Yes, they are per Fox.

[mysonsfuture]

Jefferson parish still out. Any idea how it will go?

[Miss Marple]

Major Garrett said it was the sugar thing, according to Landrieu's people, that put her back in the race. Michael Barone says that this is more like off-year elections than the actual off-year election was. Barone says that since the Republicans hold the Senate, swing voters felt safer in voting on local issues (the sugar thing).

[Diddle E. Squat]

Good. Let the media paint us as being in the darkest of night. Let them claim how horrible things are. It will just make for more of a contrast when the economy improves in the next two years. Two years is a long time until the next major election.

[montag813]

Bush should have come in Thursday, NOT Tuesday. But I still think yesterday's economic disarray is what finally did her and the congressional candidate in. A disaster of a night.

My Terrell consultant friends tell me that the Bush visit gave them a solid 3 pt lead but that two things wiped it away...The Economic shakeup...which dropped LA views of Bush's economic bonafides by 15 POINTS! and second, the SUGAR issue, which Landrieu (with Breaux) played to the hilt this week...all but erasing the memory of Bush's visit.

It is possible a later Dubya visit wuld have helped. But with those two issues, unlikely. Bush perhaps should have instead waited to sack O'Neill until Sat night.