[GOPcapitalist]

As much as you may desire to hang that defeat on southerners in general, it simply did not happen that way. You have tried that line before yet every time you offer it you only show your ignorance of both Louisiana politics and that race in particular. Unlike you, I drove over from Texas to volunteer my time on Terrell's campaign and witnessed much of it first hand. The 'rats pulled out their usual race hustling tactics, stirred up the black vote in New Orleans, and tried to suppress the non-black turnout with ads such as the one you described. Despite that ad, Terrell still won the state outside of New Orleans and in some places, such as the suburbs, won big. But New Orleans broke for Landrieu in near unanimaty, turning Terrell's narrow lead elsewhere into a narrow win for Landrieu.

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In other News...

U.S. sugar prices are almost three times higher than on world markets, in part because imports of raw sugar are limited by law to 1.4 million short tons, including 151,885 tons from Mexico. That benefits sugar cane and sugar beet farmers in states like Louisiana, Florida and Minnesota, but boosts raw material prices for sugar-consuming companies like Coca-Cola Co. and Mars Inc.

Sounds like a southern protective tariff to me.