[deport]

You must be projecting a huge turnout of white voters if you are looking at 1.5 million this time with a depressed black turnout. The primary had some 1.26 million turnout. This would break the 50% turnout barrier.

[crystalk]

There is a lot in what you say.

The 1.5 million is a round figure, but the exact turnout appears in the area of 1,422,600. This is one of the highest for any election in La. history.

I am not so sure I would call black turnout "depressed," though in Orleans one might almost say that. What the Rats will refuse to admit, is that they are losing close to 20% of the blacks who DO cast ballots. They could sooner live with the idea of a poor turnout, than ever admit that, to us or to themselves.